Title: Animal Planet
Title Record # 3579
Author: Scott Bradfield
Date: 1995-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Scott Bradfield
Date: 1995-10-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the front flap Picador first edition: "Freedom is a buzzword. And evolution a marketing strategy in this new novel...
On Animal Planet, animals possess the ability to talk as well as any human. They rebel against their human keepers, breaking out of zoos and leaving homes to live as independent beings. For most animals, however, freedom means working a steady job (usually for human bosses) and enjoying the comforts and complacencies of human life.
Into this mix flies Charlie the Crow, rabble-rouser and avian revolutionary, whose mission it is to wean animals from the bottle of contemporary culture. But the animals find that freedom depends on who's defining it, and Charlie becomes a media celebrity - appearing on talk shows to promote books, movies, and other endorsement opportunities. As the revolution is co-opted by savvy profiteers, like the marketing maven Bunny Fairchild, Charlie goes underground, traveling with his reluctant pal Buster the Penguin (who longs for his domestic life back in Antarctica), pursued by an assortment of animal activists, CIA and military operatives, reporters, movie moguls, publishers, and others. Everyone wants a piece of Charlie's radical action... even if they have to kill him to get it.
Beneath its comic surface, Animal Planet is a telling satirical fable about liberty and its consequences..."
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Animal Planet | 1995-10-00 | Scott Bradfield | Picador USA | 0-312-13428-2 | $22.00?$: US dollar |
231 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Animal Planet | 1996-04-00 | Scott Bradfield | Picador | 0-330-34360-2 | £14.99?£: UK pound |
231 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Jason Ford | |
Animal Planet | 1996-11-00 | Scott Bradfield | Picador USA | 0-312-14541-1 | $12.00?$: US dollar |
231 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Animal Planet | 1997-04-04 | Scott Bradfield | Picador | 0-330-34361-0 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
231 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Jason Ford |
Reviews
- Review by John Clute (1995) in Interzone, #101 November 1995 , reprinted in:
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- Review by Fred Patten (1996) in Yarf! The Journal of Applied Anthropomorphics #40
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (1996) in Locus, #420 January 1996
- Review by Paul Di Filippo (1996) in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1996