The Howling Stones
Enter another realm in the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth-the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and aliens!



The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise-a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth before the vicious AAnn Empire beat them to the chase. With Senisran's Parramat clan resisting entreaty, negotiations could be difficult, but Pulickel was more comfortable with aliens than with his own species, and looked forward to a triumphant return to Earth.



He hadn't counted on the incredible secret of Parramat, though: the strange, powerful green stones that the tribe used to manipulate the forces of nature. Within those stones lay an awesome technology the origin of which was lost in time-a technology that had to be kept from the AAnn at any cost . . .
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The Howling Stones
Enter another realm in the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth-the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and aliens!



The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise-a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth before the vicious AAnn Empire beat them to the chase. With Senisran's Parramat clan resisting entreaty, negotiations could be difficult, but Pulickel was more comfortable with aliens than with his own species, and looked forward to a triumphant return to Earth.



He hadn't counted on the incredible secret of Parramat, though: the strange, powerful green stones that the tribe used to manipulate the forces of nature. Within those stones lay an awesome technology the origin of which was lost in time-a technology that had to be kept from the AAnn at any cost . . .
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The Howling Stones

The Howling Stones

by Alan Dean Foster

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged — 10 hours, 33 minutes

The Howling Stones

The Howling Stones

by Alan Dean Foster

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Enter another realm in the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth-the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and aliens!



The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise-a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure mining rights for the Humanx Commonwealth before the vicious AAnn Empire beat them to the chase. With Senisran's Parramat clan resisting entreaty, negotiations could be difficult, but Pulickel was more comfortable with aliens than with his own species, and looked forward to a triumphant return to Earth.



He hadn't counted on the incredible secret of Parramat, though: the strange, powerful green stones that the tribe used to manipulate the forces of nature. Within those stones lay an awesome technology the origin of which was lost in time-a technology that had to be kept from the AAnn at any cost . . .

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I've always been a fan of Foster's Humanx universe stories, and this latest is one of the best. Human and rival alien ambassadors each seek to recruit a newly discovered world into their empires, but the local inhabitants possess a secret too powerful for either culture to handle.
—Don D'Ammassa

Product Details

BN ID: 2940159440310
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Publication date: 04/23/2024
Series: Humanx Commonwealth Series , #6
Edition description: Unabridged

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So intense was the green-blue light that spilled from the interior of his backpack that he could barely stand to look at it. He could just make out the source of the light and heat: a single uneven mass where earlier there had been two. The individual stones must have melted into one when he fell.

His fingers hovered over the lambent mass. The heat was substantial, but not unbearable. How did one separate commingled stones? How did the Parramati stonemasters do it? He felt he had to at least try. Maybe a good, strong, old-fashioned tug on both ends simultaneously, he speculated. He pulled, twisting first in one direction and then in the other. As he worked his hands and wrists, he thought he felt something give within the mass.

The stone exploded.

No, he decided, aware that he had not lost consciousness. The glassy mass had not blown up. In fact, he and the conjoined stones were the only things that had not exploded.

It was the universe that had detonated.


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