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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
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| Cover artist | Bob Eggleton |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
Publication date | January 1997 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 331 pp |
| ISBN | 0-345-40645-1 |
| OCLC | 38116558 |
The Howling Stones (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster.
Two scientists race against their vicious alien nemesis, the AAnn, to secure a treaty for mining rights on the newly discovered planet Senisran, an oddity of mostly ocean dotted with thousands of islands. The aboriginal natives' sacred stones are found to have an immense power that the humans and the AAnn will do almost anything to obtain.
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