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Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

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With such classic novels as Orphan Star and The Tar-Aiym-Krang, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers with his brilliantly imagined Humanx Commonwealth, the interstellar empire where intelligent aliens and humans live side by side. Now Foster takes us back to the unplanned beginnings of this extraordinary alliance ...

In the years after first contact, humans and the insect-like Thranx agreed to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures despite the ingraine...