S. Andrew Swann?

[Keyoke]

Anyone read anything from the author? DAW just released a collection of three of his books. The set is called Hostile Takeover, and it consist of three books (Partison, and Revolutionary are two of the book titles)

Anyways, looks like a rather good book, but, really never seen the author mention'd.

Any thoughts?

Keyoke

[FicusFan]

Yes I have read him, but not the series you mention. I was hoping the new book was another in his Moreau series.

He has a series set in a post-apocalyptic world where violence, competition, and biology has gone amuk. I think Japan and a few other places have been nuked out of existence. So their technology is scarce and very expensive and prized. The various countries left make odd alliances and they use bio-engineering to create animals as fighters and weapons. In order to do so they had to be made smarter and able to communicate. Of course those actions have consequences and there is no going back.

The stories start after the wars and there is a large population of bio-engineered animals who are not animals, not people and are not really wanted. Their main reason for existence is gone (and most don't want to be disposable weapons anyway) and they have been ghettoized and marginalized in human society. They have to try to survive in a world not designed for them, with people who fear and hate them.

The stories are told from the POV a different 'animal'. There are 4 books, and the last couple feature a tiger named Nohar as the POV. He is a private eye ala the 40's Roman Chandler, although it isn't because of nostalgia, but because of how down and out he is.

The books are
Forrests of the Night
Emperors of the Twilight
Specters of the Dawn
Fearful Symmetries

The first 3 of these are also out now in an omnibus called:

Moreau Omnibus: Forests of the Night/Emperors of the Twilight/Specters of the Dawn

I think his other stuff may be a type of Military SF - it never interested me so I never tried them. The Moreau books are good and I enjoyed them.

[Horace Slatz]

I am reading it now. I will do one book at a time rather that try to conquer the whole omnibus edition at once. Book One isn't bad so far. Too many military machinations and not enough sci-fi.

[Rob B]

http://www.sff.net/people/SASwann/ - his Web site.

Damned Ficus what haven't you read?!?!

I'm guessing you enjoyed the Moreau novels? I checked them out on amazon and they do sound interesting.

[FicusFan]

Yes I did enjoy them. I like a lot of stuff and so try to sample some of everything

The best thing is that the animals call the humans 'Pinks' as a slur. One book is told by a rabbit who is a waitress and has to deal with dangerous criminal gangs (rats or dogs - I forget). One is about a secret agent, and one is about human slaves called "Franks" and aliens.