Foragers

By Charles Oberndorf

After seven years of war with the Slazan race, a group of primitive Slazans are discovered on a remote planet, and chief ethnographer Pauline Dikobe is sent to study the reclusive people in order to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553296957
• ISBN13: 9780553296952
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Spectra Books
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Rich, but not easy

This isn't a book that you read like eating popcorn. Oberndorf depicts at least two fully realized alien cultures, and in both of them expectations about sexual roles and acts are quite different from anything in our society and quite possibly in any society you've read about. This is one of Oberndorf's motifs, and it's disturbing, but at the same time riveting. The ideas about how religions and medical practice might evolve, or how they might be quite fulfilling and useful and yet entirely different from our own are also something you have to chew over. And Oberndorf's plot also keeps you a bit off-balance. Whatever you expected, he gives you something else. I like that, and I hope he has another one out soon. Each of his novels has been entirely different from his previous work, and from just about anything I can think of. So -- if you like to think instead of just cruise along from page to page, Oberndorf might just be your man. I liked this one, and I think other people (thinkers, anyway) may also.