Search Image - (Web Shifter's Library) by Julie E Czerneda (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The first book in the Web Shifter's Library series returns to the adventures of Esen, a shapeshifting alien and member of an ancient yet endangered race, who must navigate the perils of a hostile universe.</b> <p/>Esen's back! And the dear little blob is in trouble, again. <p/> Things began so well. She and her Human friend Paul Ragem are ready to celebrate the first anniversary of their greatest accomplishment, the <i>All Species' Library of Linguistics and Culture</i>, by welcoming his family back. He hopes. Having mourned his supposed death years ago, understandably, feelings are bent. <p/> Instead, they've unexpected guests, starting with an old acquaintance. Paul's father has gone missing under dire circumstances. <p/> Before he can convince Esen to help him search, a friend shows up to use the Library. A crisis on Dokeci Na is about to explode into violence. To stop it, Evan Gooseberry needs answers. Unfortunately, the artifact he brought in trade holds its own distracting secret. A touch of very familiar blue. Web-flesh. <p/> The race is on. Paul, to find his father. Esen, to search for a mysterious legacy while helping Evan avert an extinction. What none of them realize is the price of success will be the most terrible choice of all.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Praise for the Web Shifter's Library series <p/><i>Search Image</i> is the guaranteed <b>most delightful and fun SF read</b> of the year. --Marie Bilodeau, author of the Aurora-nominated <i>Destiny </i>series <p/>Julie Czerneda's novels <b>ignite my sense of wonder</b>, from the amazing worlds she creates, to the fully realized aliens and likeable characters. I eagerly await her next. --Kristen Britain, author of <i>Green Rider</i> <p/>As always, there are plenty of oddball alien hijinks, misunderstandings, and intrigues, all illustrating how badly the library is needed while providing <b>excellent entertainment</b>. --<i>Locus</i> <p/>Julie E. Czerneda is one of the leading SF writers of the 21st Century. A biologist by trade, she's brought a unique appreciation for the far-ranging possibilities of extraterrestrial biology to her fiction, and the result has been some of <b>the most joyously alien characters in all of modern SF</b>. --Black Gate <p/><i>Search Image</i> had <b>one of my favorite settings so far</b> (an all-inclusive alien library), and an abundance of interesting aliens. Czerneda's worldbuilding and attention to biological detail is amazing, and something I always look forward to in her books. --The Obsessive Bookseller <p/>Once I started reading <i>Search Image</i><b> I could not put it down.</b> I laughed, I cried; I'll be honest, I hugged and smelled it quite a few times. I couldn't help myself. I was so happy to have it in my hands. --BookGirl's BookNook <p/>This new fantasy is <b>wildly imaginative and suspenseful</b>.... A remarkable alien makes this new addition in the Web Shifter's series one to enjoy. --Bookaholic Romance Book Club<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Julie E. Czerneda </b>is a biologist and writer whose science fiction has received international acclaim, awards, and best-selling status. She is the author of the popular Species Imperative trilogy, the Web Shifters series, the Trade Pact Universe trilogy and her new Stratification novels. She was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her stand-alone novel, <i>In the Company of Others</i>, won Canada's Prix Aurora Award and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award for Distinguished SF. Julie lives with her husband and two children in the lake country of central Ontario, under skies so clear they could take seeing the Milky Way for granted, but never do. You can find her at www.czerneda.com.
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