Relic
Written by Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by Marc Thompson
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
The last known human searches the galaxy for companionship in a brilliant standalone novel from the legendary author of the Pip & Flinx series.
Once Homo sapiens reigned supreme, spreading from star system to star system in an empire that encountered no alien life and thus knew no enemy . . . save itself. As had happened many times before, the basest, most primal human instincts rose up, only this time armed with the advanced scientific knowledge to create a genetically engineered smart virus that quickly wiped out humanity to the last man.
That man is Ruslan, the sole known surviving human being in the universe. Rescued from the charnel house of his home planet by the Myssari—an intelligent alien race—Ruslan spends his days as something of a cross between a research subject and a zoo attraction. Though the Myssari are determined to resurrect the human race, using Ruslan's genetic material, all he wants for himself and his species is oblivion. But then the Myssari make Ruslan an extraordinary offer: In exchange for his cooperation, they will do everything in their considerable power to find the lost home world of his species—an all-but-mythical place called Earth—and, perhaps, another living human.
Thus begins an epic journey of adventure, danger, heartbreak, and hope, as Ruslan sets out in search of a place that may no longer exist—drawn by the slimmest yet most enduring hope.
Alan Dean Foster
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 nonfiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving and 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 adaptation 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.
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Reviews for Relic
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Best book ever let me know if there’s a follow up ten stars
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dang that was good. Naration was perfect and the book refreshing.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Story so-so. Reader needs to work on his “girl” voice (not very girlish) and one race of aliens sounds an awful like Grover from Sesame Street.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The detail and imagination of what the future could hold for us amazed me.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5with an astonishing lack of scientific sense, a lone human lives with some incredibly human like aliens in stereotypical fashion.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Injoyed this very much will look for more by author
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fantastic novel. The audio version is read by one of the best readers I’ve heard.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I turned it off a few hours in, yelling, to please stop. If you connect with deep sci-fi such as Dick, you wont like this. Its shallowly written about a truly deep subject, but has too much unnecessary dialogue and a crawling pace. Neat idea but executed poorly. But as they say, opinions are like assholes..