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Tor Books (1994), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 318 pages
Description
The Golden Queen, Book 1 When GallenO'Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job--but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare--the alien dronon, led by their golden queen. With his best friend, a genetically engineered talking bear named Orick, and his girlfriend Maggie, Gallen soon finds himself tangled in an interstellar war that he never knew existed, racing across a host of worlds, confronted by a future unlike any that he had ever imagined.
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A frustrating novel in which aliens come to medieval earth. All of humanity's fate will be determined by a combination of a beauty pageant and a wrestling match. The most beautiful woman in the world and her bodyguard go to meet the aliens, with a peasant wench and her boyfriend in tow, and have
The weirdest part? This book is not humorous in any way. It was not intended to be comical, and it is not funny. It's just frustratingly bad.
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various adventures along the way. Lessons are learned, hard personal truths discovered, love blossoms, etc. In the end, the wench wins the beauty pageant. The weirdest part? This book is not humorous in any way. It was not intended to be comical, and it is not funny. It's just frustratingly bad.
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Original publication date
1994
Physical description
318 p.; 9.2 inches
ISBN
0312856563 / 9780312856564