The March-April issues of both Analog and Asimov's science fiction magazines have just dropped into my (virtual) postbox.

Good timing as I just finished reading *Pawn* by Timothy Zahn. I enjoyed this book. I'll need to acquire the other two books in the trilogy... but not yet as I have these magazines to get through first. 🙂

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Avatar and Manta’s Gift

This is kind of funny. When I watched the movie Avatar way back in 2009, I was struck by the similarity of the premise to Timothy Zahn’s 2002 novel Manta’s Gift:

The main character, a human who’s suffered a severely disabling injury, is offered the chance to place his consciousness into an alien body and report back to the human expedition. Over the course of his time there, he finds that he has more in common with the aliens than with the humans who sent him, and pushes back against their exploitative agenda.

OK, so it’s a brain transplant, not a neural link, and it’s manta-like beings who live in the groundless atmosphere of Jupiter, not humanoids who are part of a literal Gaia.

I just discovered that the book was re-issued in 2020 (Timothy Zahn, 2002) with a tagline describing it as “A gripping first-contact adventure for fans of James Cameron’s Avatar…”

#avatar #books #importedPost #movies #timothyZahn

A quotation from Timothy Zahn

Timothy Zahn (b. 1951) American writer
Thrawn Ascendancy, Book 1: Chaos Rising, ch. 15 [Thrawn] (2020)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/zahn-timothy/76920/

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Washington State Summer Con: 20th - 22nd June 2025 - Timothy Zahn is attending

#ElizabethDulau #WashingtonStateSummerCon #StarWars #FanthaTracks #washingtonstatesummercon #timothyzahn 

Timothy Zahn is heading to Washington State Summer Con.

Read the whole story at the below link:

https://fantha.news/qieg2

Rezension: »Star Wars™ Thrawn – Der Aufstieg – Teurer Sieg«
»Star Wars™ Thrawn - Der Aufstieg - Teurer Sieg (Thrawn Ascendancy 3)« ist der letzte Band der neuen Trilogie, die mich angenehm überrascht hat.

Dachte ich anfangs noch »Na gut, ich mag ja Thrawn und die Chiss, aber so viel Neues wird hier bestimmt nich
https://lass-den-wookie-gewinnen.de/2024/02/09/rezension-star-wars-thrawn-der-aufstieg-teurer-sieg/
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Cached US Kindle book giveaway: 6 copies of Timothy Zahn's The Quadrail Series Books 4&5: The Domino Pattern and Judgment at Proteus, which I haven't read, but I've given out the first 3 books before. Again, only 6, so inline links!

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