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Book Review of Cachalot

Cachalot
Cachalot
Author: Alan Dean Foster
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
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A guilt-ridden Earth had turned Chachalot over to the few surviving cetacearns as a perpetual refuge-a planet whose surface was once great ocean, where the remnants of the whales, porpoises, and dolphins could pusue their lives and perhaps even the development on an intelligence greater than man's.
Humans on Cjchalot were striclu conmvined to a few islands and the floating towns prospering from the wealth of its sea. The cetaceans seemed to have forgiven the thousands of years of terror and slaughter they had suffered--some had even befriended selected humans.