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Cachalot
by Alan Dean Foster
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Del Rey (1980-04-12)
ISBN: 0345280660
EAN: 9780345280664
Mass Market Paperback: 275 pages
SKU: 6490
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: Very Good.
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Customer Reviews
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Neat creatures, good twist
Rating  (4)
Date: 2004-03-12
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Foster does a great job describing the environs of the planet, ships, and personalities. I thought it had a great plot with tension, a relationship developing, and mystery. The twist at the end was unexpected for me.
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Excellent book
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-05-18
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
First read this when I was about 8... borrowed it outta my older sister's collection when she was babysitting and I was BORED. Forgot the author, forgot the title, remembered only that it was about a water world mostly inhabited by whales that were destroying cities. Found it again over a decade later and realized why it had stuck with me for SO long (the plot, obviously nothing else stuck)... it is a GOOD book. One of the very rare books that I've had to locate and buy multiple copies of... I keep wearing it out.
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Excellent
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-03-18
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Typical Foster storyboard with some weird characters and animals, a lovestory, a tough woman, a world to safe ....... but a great book to read. Nevertheless, I think its not suitable for "Commenwealth" beginners. Own it since years and have read it many times.
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Human v Whale on Waterworld.
Rating (4)
Date: 2001-11-15
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
At one time (circa the 1970s when this novel was written) Humans had hunted the sea dwelling mammals to near extinction. When other worlds had been discovered they were given a planet of their own, Cachalot (shades of Camelot?), to colonize and live on unmolested. However humans are now colonizing the planet and rogue warrior whales seem to be attacking and destroying the floating cities. Recommended.
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Cachalot
Rating (4)
Date: 2000-11-12
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Cachalot is set far in the future in a time when humans have for the most part mended thier ways and are trying to be a more patronly race than they had been in the past. The story takes place on Cachalot, a waterworld when the Cetaceans (whales and dolphins) of old earth have been given a new home. These magnificent creatures have been discovered to be intelligent and a weak truce has been forge between the humans and the whales. The Cetaceans still feel jilted and angry at the humans for the way they had been treated in the past, and old wounds still run deep. When the whales begin attacking ships and port-towns, several investigators are called in to discover why the attacks are happening after so many years of peace. What they find is something unprecedented and bizzare. Cachelot was the first Foster novel I ever read and it made me a big fan of his. It is a truly unique story, told through many different eyes. I'd definitely recommend it to Foster fans and those who've never read him.
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