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The Howling Stones

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The Howling Stones
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
Cover artistBob Eggleton
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDel Rey Books
Publication date
January 1997
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages331 pp
ISBN0-345-40645-1
OCLC38116558

The Howling Stones (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster.

Plot summary

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.