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    The Tery

    By F. Paul Wilson

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    A novel of the LaNague Federation – Book Three

    Heroes don't always look the part.

    He was a tery, a lean, bearish creature with no name. The human soldiers left dead. Just another dumb animal on their extermination list.

    But he didn't die.

    Animals weren't the only beings on the list. Certain humans were marked for extinction as well. A fugitive band found him and brought him back from the brink. He became their pet, their mascot.

    And still he had no name. He was simply "the tery."

    He soon learned that these were no ordinary humans, and learned too that he was no ordinary tery. The humans had no idea that the creature they fed table scraps and patted on the head would soon turn their world upside down and change it forever.

    By then he had a name.

    Set on a distant world nearly destroyed by its human settlers, THE TERY is a beauty-and-the-beast fable that only F. Paul Wilson could tell, full of wonder and horror, brimming with strange landscapes and hideous mutations from science run amok. An unforgettable tale of the extremes of the human spirit – of bravery and depravity, of innocence and evil.

    "This early short novel by F. Paul Wilson was written at a point when the author was beginning to understand that horror... was the genre he should focus on. THE TERY is certainly not a straightforward scare novel... Wilson began adding horrific elements to his pseudo-fantasy beauty-and-the-beast tale. The creepy stuff includes 'The Hole,' a nightmarish place where failed results of genetic experimentation have been dumped... the eerie way the tribe of telepaths that the tery bonds with practices 'humane hunting'... where we see how radically religion can change after a number of generations... the clever, cool prose that makes Wilson such an easy read is evident... anyone interested in tracking the development of a major genre writer will find much to satiate his or her curiosity." – Fangoria's Nightmare Book Of The Month, Tom Deja

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherF. Paul Wilson
    Release dateJul 11, 2012
    ISBN9781452406497
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    F. Paul Wilson

    F. Paul Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author specializing in thriller, science fiction and horror. He won the Prometheus award in 1979 and 2004, as well as a special Prometheus Lifetime Achievement award in 2015.

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      F. Paul Wilson is best known for his horror fiction, particularly his bestselling vampires-among-the-Nazis, The Keep. I rather enjoyed that pot-boiler, but I like his space opera LaNague Federation novels much more. This is listed both on Goodreads and LibraryThing as last in the series, but chronologically that really isn't correct. This is definitely after the first novel, An Enemy of the State, and possibly after Dydeetown, but definitely before Healer and Wheels Within Wheels. It's also as far as I'm concerned the weakest of the novels, the others of which I've rated four stars; The Tery is only rated as high as three stars because I did enjoy seeing Steve Dalt of Healer before joining up with Pard, and for that reason this book is keeping its place on my bookshelves for now rather than being culled. Otherwise I found this science fiction Beauty and the Beast less original and imaginative that the other books in the series, and the title character never really hooked me. It also has the weakest--or anyway least interesting--female character in the series. Adriel is pure damsel-in-distress without anything else (other than her beauty natch) to distinguish her. And you know, if you're trying for a sci-fi version of Beauty and the Beast, in my opinion anyway, the female perspective--how a woman can come to love a beast--is if anything more important, more interesting than how the beast can come to love the beauty--and this novel is scant on that perspective. I do like this series, and would recommend the omnibus LaNague Chronicles containing An Enemy of the State, Wheels Within Wheels and Healer. They're all Prometheus Award winners, which might be an added attraction--or detraction--for some. (The Prometheus Awards are given to libertarian fiction.) More general readers might enjoy Dydeetown which can stand on its own, and where the libertarian themes aren't to the fore. The Tery I'd recommend only to fans of Healer who want more of Steve Dalt.