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Chess With a Dragon
Chess With a Dragon
Author: David Gerrold
Junior diplomat in humanity's legation to the Intergalactic Exchange outwits aliens bent on enslaving all humans. Yake Singh Browne, Assistant Liaison officer with the 113th Interstellar mission, is told by the ever-so-polite Drooughleem representative--a 13-foot-long slug--that mankind is overdrawn at the memory bank, and may have to pay fo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380706624
ISBN-10: 0380706628
Publication Date: 11/1988
Pages: 163
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Publisher: Avon Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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From School Library Journal
Grade 8-11 In a distant future in which only 12 of the registered 2017 sentient species are mammalian, the human species is at a distinct disadvantage. Yake Singh Brown questions the game which mankind seems to have lost and decides to ask the Dragon, a member of one of the fiercest and wisest species, if there is a way for humanity to survive. He learns that although there is a way, Yake and his friends must discover it for themselves. Using his hunch that the game encourages bluffs and cheating, Yake not only finds a way out of the trap but also negotiates two contracts that may put mankind in the position to ``retire'' two other species in a few years. Gerrold has written a fine but demanding science-fiction novel. Readers must follow a complicated series of narrative changes as the main story and a sub-plot unfold. However those with perseverance will enjoy the story's campy humor and unexpected plot twists. The old-fashioned pulp science-fiction feeling is reinforced by Torres' black-and-white illustrations with their deco settings and Dick Tracy-ish characters. Anne Connor, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.--.


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