Outreach (Dushau Trilogy) [Paperback]

Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dushau Trilogy | Publication Date: 1986

Settled in safety on the Dushau's secret planet of refuge, among other refugee Dushau, "Lady" Zavaronne, the first human to link minds with the Dushau and survive, must attend the Dushau Jindigar's wedding, but the local Hive Mind creatures attack the Dushau colony.

The long-lived Dushau are going into Renewal, the reproductive phase, and losing the ability to psychically shield the colony from the Hive natives. When the offworlder colony is over run by the Hive, Zavaronne and Jindigar must construct a new Hive mentality this world can accept before they all go insane.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 239 pages
• Publisher: Popular Library; First Edition edition (1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0445201401
• ISBN-13: 978-0445201408
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,163,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a professional sf/f writer, and a Life Member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (sfwa.org) I'm also a member of EPIC, The Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition, and Backlist eBooks, a group of widely published writers presenting their own previously published work in eBook format.

My first novel, House of Zeor, first of the Sime~Gen novels, was published in hc in 1974 and remained continually in print for 20 years.

Today the series has been picked up by Wildside Press, Borgo imprint, re-issued as both e-book in a wide variety of formats including Kindle, and as Print on Demand. In addition brand new, never before published novels are included, and all are presented numbered in publication order.

Like Star Trek fandom, Sime~Gen fandom has produced more fanfiction than ever was professionally published -- and RPG's and LARPS and board games, and hand-crafts, and art, and poetry - and even a professionally written and recorded song.

My works in other universes are likewise coming in new formats, and brand new novels will be added through Wildside Press.

Watch for audiobook versions via audible.com which will appear here on Amazon. The first of my novels to be recorded as an audiobook is Molt Brother, which has a direct sequel City of a Million Legends. Both those are newly available as e-books on Kindle and other formats, as well as in paper.

A vampire-romance, Those of My Blood and its sequel Dreamspy are available in paper again, at regular not collector's prices, right here on Amazon.

After selling several Sime~Gen novels to hardcover, I was joined by Jean Lorrah (author of many Trek novels, as well as her own series of fantasy novels, Savage Empire). Jean's first novel was our Sime~Gen collaboration titled First Channel. We are now co-owners of Sime~Gen Inc. which owns simegen.com

I'm the originator of the term Intimate Adventure, quoted in Publisher's Weekly. All my novels belong to the Intimate Adventure genre, as do those of Jean Lorrah.

I am the sf/f book reviewer for The Monthly Aspectarian and my column is archived on simegen.com/reviews/. There you'll find a link to an article showing the Star Trek Connection behind everything to do with Sime~Gen and simegen.com.

The first two columns have an in-depth definition of Intimate Adventure with examples by many authors across many fields. Intimate Adventure is the Hidden Genre -- everyone loves it, nobody (especially publishers) knows it exists.

You'll find links to all my online projects on my personal page, simegen.com/jl/ or select information about currently available novels on jacquelinelichtenberg.com

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bitter sweet ending to this trilogy, August 30, 2011

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Vijaya Schartz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Outreach (The Dushau Trilogy) (Kindle Edition)

Unlike in the two first books of this series (Dushau & Farfetch), which I thoroughly enjoyed, the action here is more static as most of it happens on another plane of consciousness, while a small group of Dushau and the human heroine link minds to communicate with their new world. The world created for this book is rich and highly original. People and animals live in hives and have a collective awareness. The social implications for the colonists create a number of conflicting and dangerous situations. The hero and the heroine of the first two books are still front and center, but some time has passed, and their relationship has shifted. I wanted more for the hero and heroine. I found the ending too logical and bittersweet, although it will satisfy most readers. I must give a warning to eager romantics that this is in no way a romance (fullfilling the promise that no matter what, the hero and heroine will end up together happily ever after). If it were a romance, I would expect a fourth book, where the artificial intelligence entity would return and make everything right again. But maybe that's just me. I'm fiercely partial to satisfying endings... at least in fiction.