The Sonderberg family doesn’t know it yet, but this isn’t going to be any ordinary road trip. After they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker, a quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality. It turns out the family has just given a ride to an alien who has the fate of the universe resting on her shoulders. Now the Sonderberg family must fight evil alongside their new alien friend in a desperate attempt to save the world they love.
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Picking up a hitchhiker changes the Las Vegas-bound vacation of sporting-goods executive Frank Sonderberg and family into yet another of Foster's ( Into the Out Of ) quests to save the world. Their guest is a slight, lavender-eyed woman called "Mouse" who claims to be 4000 years old and is on her way to the Vanishing Point, where she must regulate the spinner that weaves the fabric of existence. If she fails, evil and chaos will reign supreme. The Sonderbergs get a glimpse of the possible result when their mobile home wanders into such alternate worlds as a postholocaust Utah, a fire-and-brimstone burg called "Hades Junction" and alien Pass Regulusa glitzy but incomprehensible version of Las Vegas. The noble Sonderbergs are a dull bunch, but Foster keeps this jaunt entertaining with his fantasy exaggerations of road stops at unknown towns, intriguing turnoffs and dubious diners.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.
Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.
Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ranks as one of the best books I ever read,
By Sargon (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
This review is from: To the Vanishing Point (Paperback)
I enjoyed this book immensely. I read it over ten years ago, but it was a memorable book just the same. Also, enjoyed Sentenced to Prizm by the same author.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable, imaginative, VERY hard to put down.,
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This review is from: To the Vanishing Point (Hardcover)
Continually interesting, well-written story about your average middle-class family driving a motor home to Las Vegas and becoming involved in a hitchhiker's quest to save the cosmos from chaos. Often quite humorous.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellant, what you expect from ADF- a rattling good yarn.,
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This review is from: To the Vanishing Point (Hardcover)
The interaction between the characters as they realise what is happening to them is facinating. the only weak point in the story I can find is the acceptance that Steven dissappeared and no one really mentioned it, if my child dissappeared with angels I would be a bit upset. If i ever drove to las vegas I would take it with me and be very careful NOT to pick up hitchikers.Still having said that who wants reality to intrude too often. It is the reason to read the authors work. My problem now is I now have lost my copy and cannot get a new one. Publishers should re release his work on a more regular basis.
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