Phylogenesis
Last updated October 31, 2026
In the decades following first contact, humans and the insectlike thranx find each other physically repulsive and keep contact limited. Desvendapur, a restless thranx poet seeking inspiration, gets assigned to a secret thranx colony hidden in the Amazon Basin on Earth. He encounters Cheelo Montoya, a small-time thief on the run, and the two form an uneasy bond. It begins Alan Dean Foster's Founding of the Commonwealth trilogy, which tells how their alliance began.
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