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Riya's Foundling

Algis Budrys

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Riya's Foundling | Algis Budrys
3.05
37 ratings
Book Overview: 

Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a "person"..

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Phildee slipped out of his dormitory and ran across the yard to the feed-house. He dropped the big wooden latch behind him, and climbed up the ladder to the loft, depending on the slight strength of his young arms more than on his legs, which had to be lifted to straining heights before they could negotiate the man-sized rungs.

He reached the loft and stood panting, looking out over the farm through the loft door, at the light wooden fences around it, and the circling antenna of the radar tower.

Usually, he spent at least a little time each day crouched behind the grainsacks and being bigger and older, firing cooly and accurately into charging companies of burly, thick-lipped UES soldiers, or going over on one wing and whistling down on a flight of TT-34's that scattered like frightened ducks before the fiery sleet of his wing rockets.

But today was different, today there was something he wanted to try.

He stood up on his toes and searc. . . Read More

Community Reviews

3.00
- Jane Roxanne Beamon - Oct 19, 2020

A simple tale of simple creatures. Each with a need that the other can fulfill.

3.00
- Kay - Jul 17, 2018

Cute but nothing spectacular

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