''The Deluge Drivers'' (
1987
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) is a
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
novel by American writer
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He has written several book series, more than 20 standalone novels, and many novelizations of film scripts.
Career ''Star Wars''
Foster was the ghos ...
. It is the final entry in Foster's ''Icerigger Trilogy'' of books taking place in the
Humanx Commonwealth The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster.Icerigger
''Icerigger'' is a 1974 science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. Like many of Foster's science-fiction novels, ''Icerigger'' takes place within his Humanx Commonwealth fictional universe
A fictional universe, or fictional w ...
'' and ''
Mission to Moulokin
'' Mission to Moulokin '' (1979) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. It is the second entry in Foster's ''Icerigger Trilogy'' and is a part of his ever-growing series of books taking place within his Humanx Commonwe ...
.''
Plot introduction
After resigning himself to perhaps being trapped on Tran-Ky-Ky for the rest of his life, Ethan Fortune learns that scientists at the outpost of Brass Monkey have detected a steady warming in the planet’s atmosphere. This has caused something not seen in generations on the planet: open water on the ice oceans. Taking the giant icerigger ''Slanderscree'' with a crew of Tran to investigate, Fortune learns that the warming of the oceans is not an accidental or natural event.
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Alan Dean Foster homepage
1987 American novels
Humanx Commonwealth
Novels by Alan Dean Foster
1987 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Sequel novels
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