looking for the name of a book I read about 20 years ago

[splashingmist]

-This was a book in paperback maybe 200 to 400 ish pages
-it would have been written in the 1990s or earlier (I believe it would have been in the 1980s or 1990s)
-Sci Fiction
I read this 20 to 25 years ago so I will give you the bits I can remember. (sorry its not much). It was set mainly in a space ship with a group of men and woman that are taken to the ship for training for fighting of some kind. I has a lot of funny comic relief in the story line. I remember they people given a one piece suit that they were to ware and them complaining it was so skin tight that you could see every nook and cranny. I vaguely remember the aliens in this book were round and flouted about (assuming Im not mixing up books). Unfortunately this is not much to go on and I was not able to find it googling it. Thanks for the help.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Could it be part of the Alan Dean Foster trilogy - the damned?

Cheers, Greg.

 

[Danny McG]

Hi,

Could it be part of the Alan Dean Foster trilogy - the damned?

Cheers, Greg.

Hiya Greg,
I don't think it's the Damned trilogy, I reread that in early December while I had no internet and there was nothing about the one piece shipsuits - that's from elsewhere and is annoying because I've read it at some time

 

[Danny McG]

. I vaguely remember the aliens in this book were round and flouted about

This has me thinking of the hydrosphere aliens in the "Saga of the seven suns" series by Kevin thingummy

 

[tachyon]

Might be "Children of Arable" by David Belden

I haven't read this but dug it up searching the web.

- spherical aliens
- late 1980s
- set in space

however: "a big ideas book" about gender and the Future of Humanity, so doesn't exactly sound like something with a comic relief storyline...