Meanwhile, Flinx's enemies are hot on his trail-no sooner is one set apparently neutralized than another appears. While it does not become obvious until future novels, the empathic nature of Midworld is vital to allowing Flinx to accomplish his ultimate task. And they and the humans have some sort of peculiar empathic relationship with the planet - more significantly, with the plant life. These humans have companions, not pets, but apparently native creatures whose lives are bound inextricably (unto death) with their particular human. Risking death with every cautious step, he is finally rescued from a most ingenious botanical predator by a band of humans - descendants of a lost colony ship long forgotten. Flinx exits his lander - and is nearly killed by a huge, transparent flying creature.īut something draws him on to explore this lush and beautiful world where the flowers have hidden teeth and even the water may reach up and grab you for the first time in years, his headaches are gone. The ship takes them to a supposedly undiscovered planet, covered with jungle a mile thick. Flinx of the Commonwealth (For Love of Mother-not, the Tar-aiym Krang and Orphan Star) by Alan Dean Foster 30 copies. Strange Music by Alan Dean Foster 53 copies, 5 reviews. When the situation becomes life-threatening, Flinx and his snake, Pip, flee the planet, instructing the space ship to fly into random uncharted space. Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster 323 copies, 6 reviews. But the local bully takes a shine to Flinx's longtime companion, an empathic and poisonous flying snake, or minidrag, and insists on buying it. The wait is over At last, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimed Humanx universe, where a young human orphan called Flinx seeks to unlock the dangerous secrets of his past and the uncertain prospects of his future with the aid of the formidable minidrag known as Pip.
The book is the sixth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.Īs the story opens, Flinx is at loose ends, looking for peace and quiet on a backwater world.
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Series can be read in published order (as listed below) or. His erratic mental powers of sensing emotion are augmented by his telepathic catalyst, shoulder-riding stray Pip, a venomous Alaspinian mini-dragon. He started with his character of Flinx, a homeless orphan with mental talents and his flying snake, Pip the minidrag that has an emotional connection to him. Mid-Flinx ( 1995) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. Looking for books by Alan Dean Foster See all books authored by Alan Dean Foster, including The Force Awakens, and Splinter of the Mind's Eye, and more on . Orphan Flinx is raised by old Mother Mastiff on the backwater planet of Moth.
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