Sentenced to Prism

Unlike most SF books where the properties of life are pretty much the same with a bunch of carbon based life-forms interacting with each other, this book features a world where the creatures are DIFFERENT.I hope this book gets reprinted in the near future. It's great!

Foster always seems to touch on an aspect of human sociality in each hardcore sci-fi book. In Quozl, he dwelled on adolescence, Slipt, elderly complascence. Prizm explored fashion and human vanity, not to mention human superiority. He has an astounding vision and extremely flexible biological views. He has been one of my favorite writers since I read "The man who used the Universe" back in 1978. Not being a sci-fantasy buff, I cannot reccommend all his works, but I strongly endorse all hardcore sci-fi.....TTM III

THis was the first SF book I read all the way through. I was 12. I had picked up other SF books before that, like Clarke's "Rama" and "2001" but they just couldn't entertain me( remember I was 12, they have sense become main staples) but Prism was just what I was looking for, action, adventer, aliens(really alien) monsters, gore, all the things that any 12 year old boy looks for.

It is so disappointing to see this exceptional book out of print. I urge anyone interested in exciting, unpredictable sci-fi action to run to the nearest used book store and hunt it down.The descriptions of the planet of Prism are innovative and enticing. They prove beyond a doubt that nothing is ever what it seems and there is no possible way to prepare for the unknown.When Evan Orgell was placed on Prism, he was outfitted with a state-of-the-art, impenetrable survival suit; impenetrable, that is, in predictable conditions, like earth, but on a new and incredibly different world, anything can happen. Be ready to be surprised.

Evan Orgell thought he was ready for everything, but he was not ready for a world where everything was new and unknown. From the beginning Foster draws you into the story with his rich detailed descriptions of a place that you can only imagine. You will find yourself turning page after page impatient to learn more about this beautiful but deadly place.