Buffalito Destiny

by Lawrence M. Schoen

Only Lawrence Schoen could blend the Mayan eschaton, nightclub hypnotism, corporate elitism, radical environmentalism, and good old-fashioned slam-bang adventure fiction.--Jay Lake. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981924336
• ISBN13: 9780981924335
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Hadley Rille Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Entertaining Journey

"Buffalito Destiny" was one of the more fun reads I've had this year. I do tend to like SF stories that take an interesting idea and takes it to its logical conclusions. In this case, we have the Buffalito, which can eat essentially *anything*, even solid rock or nuclear waste - the latter is key to the story - and convert it into oxygen, which it expels it by, well, you know. The story centers around the environmental and business efforts of Conroy (corporate icon, smuggler, environmentalist, hypnotist) and his pet Reggie, the main Buffalito in the story (though Conroy owns many more), and their battles with anti-alien extremism, since Buffalitoes are not native to Earth. (You meet various other aliens as well, including the mind-reading Arconi that Conroy stole the original breeding Buffalito from.) And then there's the lava pit fight that'll make you forget about Obi-Wan and Darth Vader! Highly recommended.