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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2002

ISBN
  
0-345-41865-4

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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
2002

Preceded by
  
Publisher
  
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Series
  
The Founding of the Commonwealth

Media type
  
Print (hardback & paperback)

Pages
  
336 pp (first edition, hardcover)

Genres
  
Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction

Similar
  
Alan Dean Foster books, Humanx Commonwealth Universe books, Science Fiction books

Diuturnity's Dawn (2002) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The full title is sometimes shown as Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of The Founding of the Commonwealth.

Contents

Plot summary

In the third and concluding novel of this trilogy, an uncomfortable archaeological alliance of Thranx, humans, and AAnn, explores the well-kept secrets of the lost civilization of the Sauun on the frontier world Comagrave. After a series of accidents that occur where the AAnn are convenient for helping an injured or stranded human, the chief Thranx scientist starts suspecting an anti-Thranx conspiracy. Meanwhile, on the planet Dawn, such a conspiracy seems to be up and running, for terrorists there plan vicious destruction to crush the infant commonwealth. Unexpected players in this engrossing drama are the padres, human and Thranx, of the anything but dogmatic United Church, which ministers to both species with a decidedly untraditional religious outlook.

Themes

The themes exposed in this novel are typically Foster:

  • The stupidity of shapeism (liking what is shaped like you)
  • The conflict between truth and good
  • The craziness of extremism
  • The value of humor when building a religion
  • Literary significance and reception

    Don D'Ammassa in his review for Science Fiction Chronicle said that Foster "shows us a convincing array of motives and schemes, self sacrifice and obsession, before winding everything up. Another fine novel set in one of my favorite created universes." Jeff Zaleski in his review for Publishers Weekly said "If the idea of big bugs (the thranx) and human-sized snakes (the AAnn) makes you squirm, you'll have fun with bestseller Foster's latest installment (after 2000's Dirge) in his saga of interspecies conflict set in the far reaches of the galaxy."

    References

    Diuturnity's Dawn Wikipedia


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