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Cat • A • Lyst Kindle Edition

by Alan Dean Foster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
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Cat • A • Lyst is a purrfectly hilarious science fiction adventure from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Humanx Commonwealth series.
 
There’s more to movie star Jason Carter than his smoldering good looks, but Hollywood’s honchos aren’t interested in casting him as a dramatic lead. With little to do on camera beyond running around a battlefield in a Civil War film, Jason decides it’s time to take a vacation. He finds the perfect destination in the Peruvian Andes, where he believes there is treasure to be found.
 
Instead, Jason stumbles upon a hidden civilization of Incas from an alternate dimension planning to conquer Earth. Now, he’s on the run with a band of companions including an Amazon warrior, an archeologist, a tabloid journalist, and a cat who just may hold the key to saving the world.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D22WD3R1
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (April 9, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 9, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4936 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

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Alan Dean Foster

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Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.

Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.

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The_cow_goes_NAY
5.0 out of 5 stars Great shape for an old book
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2024
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Considering the age of the book, it's in tremendous shape. Book jacket shows little wear, and book itself is in perfect condition.
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spicey
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017
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sandy lipinski
5.0 out of 5 stars Well written. Action and adventure.
Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2023
I liked it. What can go wrong in the jungle to the extreme.
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Dr. Zoidberg
3.0 out of 5 stars Very fun and light - but the plot is infantile at times
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2001
I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm in the mood for a real "heavy" book which will stimulate thinking and linger in my brain for weeks. Other times, I just want a light and fun book. Cat-A-Lyst started as one of the lighest novels I have ever read: an actor, Jason Carter, goes on a trip to Peru in search of hidden Inca treasure. While there, he encounters interesting characters and strange situations (funny aliens, An Inca colony on another planet which is determined to avenge the demise of their empire done by the Spanish centuries ago, and more). I read two thirds of the book and really had lots of fun - this was exactly what I wanted at the time, very very fun plot - even if it wasn't really a believable one. But then the book became *really* ridiculous.. so I forced myself to finish it just to know how the story ends.
Overall, I think this book would be perfect for times of real boredom (such as a long flight).. but don't get it expecting a masterpiece, because this is nearly the exact opposite.
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Chadwick H. Saxelid
4.0 out of 5 stars Feline focused fantasy laugh fun out loud funny...
Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2002
...for me at least. While it is true that Alan Dean Foster has crafted some fine, entertaining adventure stories in his long and distinguished career, Cat-A-Lyst isn't really one of them. Words like cartoonish and juvenile descibe it best, but there is no doubt that this outlandish comedy will offer some fun for the feline fancier, but those looking for a more serious tale better give this one a very wide berth, it's as silly as they can get. It reads as if Foster just jotted down some whimsical ideas while on a Peruvian vacation and then stitched them together with some book ended axe grinding at the movie and television industry (perhaps his stint as a Star Trek writer left him with some scars?). Ostensibly it is the tale of one Jason Carter, a reluctant Hollywood Heartthrob who just wants to be taken seriously as an actor. While filming a Civil War epic Carter finds a computer disc. Said disc contains hints of Peruvian treasure. Thanks to a somewhat enigmatic and salty tongued costume matron (who isn't what she appears to be) and some convoluted research on her part Carter and Company are soon enough in the wilds of Peru, searching for the hinted at treasure and finding something quite different, thanks to a mysterious cat that pops up out of nowhere and tags along. Things go from the comedic to the downright silly in no time flat as alternated dimensions are discovered and intellectual carrots arrive on the scene. Needless to say that, if you are in the mood for frenetically paced, feline focused cartoon fantasyu fun, then check Cat-A-Lyst out, you just might like it. Recommended, believe it or not.
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Sirius Publications
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, hilarious book!
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2003
I had to write this after reading some reviews here putting this book down. I loved it. Maybe I'm biased because I am a cat-lover, but I also enjoy silliness, so maybe that's why I enjoyed it more than the others who wrote here. I have been known to read Piers Anthony's silly and punny fantasies, and this one ranks up there with or above those. Recommend this if you like those, especially if you like cats, and definitely if you are a fan of Alan Dean Foster's sillier works. Sirius Recommends Book Reviews.
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Kathleen Cobcroft
4.0 out of 5 stars Rather silly
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2000
This is *not* serious sci fi - quite the opposite. I actually really enjoyed it. There's missing Incan civilisations, inter-dimensional energy beings (that look like suspiciously like housecats) battling for Earth, good vs evil, etc, and then there's the odd stuff...
Maybe I'm a bit biased (due to being a mad cat-lover), but I found it quite interesting and funny. Better than Cogerspace, but not as good as Quozl.
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mister b
5.0 out of 5 stars Revisiting a classic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2017
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First read this book many years ago and loved the humour and high adventure of it. From Atlanta, Georgia to Peru to Scotland a heady mix of Alice in Wonderland, Lost Civilizations and an attempt to invade earth. Oh and cats, especially cats.
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Bretton Girl
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun sci fi excursion into the weird
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2016
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A wonderful cast of characters. The most attractive female in the book is a murderous psychopath. The hero is muscle bound and handsome, but is a movie hero so bored with misplaced adulation and his dismissal by critics and peers as just another pretty boy actor; he seeks a real adventure. He is aided and abetted in his archaeological and alien encounter adventures by a gutsy South American guide, an ascerbic ex gangsters moll and two extraordinary cats. Add an antagonist in the form of a wicked cat manipulating a greedy scholar, the intervention of some benign aliens who are basically absent minded vegetables, really one looks like a carrot, and mix in a considerable amount of weirdness and you get an entertaining quirky Sci fi.
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Wurpwrincle
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2015
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an excellent lightweight adventure Alan has written better but not much
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