Cachalot

Humanx Commonwealth, Book 2

By: Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a sci-fi fantasy set on an aquatic planet, where cetaceans are thriving and humans dying at an alarming rate.

Welcome to Cachalot, a planet made almost entirely of water, an ocean refuge for Earth's marine mammals, rescued from near extinction at the hands of humans thousands of years ago. Free from predators and human impact, the whales thrive in their new home, growing in size and intelligence. Everything is perfect. Until humans decide to establish floating towns on Cachalot, drawn by the planet's abundant natural resources. Now someone or something is killing off Cachalot's human population, a mystery a team of marine biologists has to been sent to Cachalot to solve—a mission that could cost them their lives.

"One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy."—the Times (London)

©1980 Alan Dean Foster (P)2023 Tantor

To Another Planet

I thought I ran out of great sci-fi authors. I was wrong. The narrator talks funny, but you get used to it.

Very nice

I especially liked the main character’s cetacean name, meaning Woman Who Must Know Everything. What a perfect descriptive name for a scientist. It is at the heart of why most of us study science and become scientists.

Good Story, maudlin narration

This is a good book but this has been badly marred by the narration, It sounds like every line describes a very depressing disaster. It ruined the book for me.