Whipping Star
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ISBN 0-8398-2648-6 | | |
Preceded by | “The Tactful Saboteur” | |
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Followed by | The Dosadi Experiment |
Whipping Star is a 1970
Plot summary
In a far-flung future in which Earth is not so much as mentioned,
Ninety years prior to the setting of Whipping Star, the Calebans had appeared and offered jumpdoors to the ConSentiency, affording instantaneous travel to any point in the galaxy. This seemingly miraculous technology was accepted with out `too many questions being asked (and even fewer being answered), and the sociology of the ConSentiency was remade. Mliss Abnethe, a
The Calebans begin to flee one at a time, leaving our plane of existence (or exiting "our wave"). Inasmuch as all Calebans are interconnected, if they were to remain in our wave of existence when Fanny Mae dies, they would also die. McKie has to find Mliss and stop her mad,
The action ranges from solar systems to office politics,
Related works
Whipping Star was followed in 1977 by Herbert's The Dosadi Experiment and preceded by the short story "The Tactful Saboteur". While these stories are not exactly related to Whipping Star, they take place in the same imaginary universe and have the same main character, Jorj X. McKie.
novels; both the original series by Frank Herbert as well as the extended series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.Main characters
- Jorj X. McKie - BuSab Saboteur Extraordinary - Human
- Bildoon - BuSab Director - Pan Spechi
- Fannie Mae - Caleban
- Mliss Abnethe - wealthy female - human
References
- ^ Herbert, Frank. Whipping Star.
26 mentions of chairdogs found in chapters 2, 5, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 22, and 23.
External links
- Whipping Star title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Whipping Star at Open Library