Product Description
From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing new Pip & Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flying dragon. In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy’s greatest magnet for big trouble.

Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons’ system. All Flinx has to do–while his pals look after his injured love Clarity Held–is find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire Commonwealth.

A no-brainer, really, especially for Flinx, who is never without his loyal entourage of official snoops, crazed zealots, assorted goons, and the occasional assassin. Indeed, the boy wonder and his mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence their heroic task . . . just as soon as Flinx visits Visaria–a dangerously depraved planet–to convince himself that humans are indeed worth saving.

The chances of stumbling across high moral values and utopian ideals don’t look promising–what with Flinx playing a lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving juvenile delinquents. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs afoul of the corrupt planet’s ruthless crime king.

Still, life is full of surprises, and Flinx is about to get smacked by a passel of them–by turns devastating, heartening, and positively jaw-dropping. For although Flinx came to Visaria to plumb the enigma of humankind, there’s another mystery waiting here, a shocking clue about his own shadowy past.

From the Hardcover edition.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 11 reviews)

Review

This was a pickup to complete the series to date. It provides the necessary continuity for a fan to fulfill the flow of events.
January 01, 2008

Once there was a boy who wanted to travel.......

Go to alandeanfoster dot com. If you haven't read everything he's written, at least give it a try..... I have them all (I think?)
December 29, 2007

Pip and Flinx

I found this to be a very good addition to the Pip and Flinx story. It follows the story line quite well. Hopefully this won't be the last we hear of Pip And Flinx!
March 09, 2007

Pip and Flinx are at it again.

Alan Dean Foster has written so many books that you kind of have to wonder if there's really a Mr. Alan, a Mr. Dean and a Mr. Foster, all cranking out words. But I'm assured that there's not, and here he's presented us with the 11th, or is is the 12th Pip and Flinx adventure.

As usual, they are on their way to some far away place in the Galazy to find a huge Tar-Aiym weapos system to ... well you know.

On the way he gets side tracked into an adventure on the crime ridden planet of Visaria. Here the story develops in typical Foster tradition with a lot of description of the planet, its people, its society and of course of the desparate situation in which the heros find themselves.

This book can be read as a free standing book and it will make sense. More fun will be had though by those of us who have ridden into adventure with Pip and Flinx before. Is this the best of the novels - No. Is it the worst - No. Is it great fiction - No. Is it a fun way to spend some cold winter evenings or an airplane ride, it sure is.
February 01, 2007

Why can't we award negative stars?

This is the eleventh book in Foster's Flinx series, and I'll say up front I did not expect it to be *good*. But I started this series when I was sixteen, and dang it, I do want to know how it ends. But this is not the book where I found out. It is a complete waste of time for anyone not thoroughly familiar with the series, as it follows the protagonist through a series of encounters designed to showcase references to previous books, culminating in a completely unforeshadowed deus ex machina.

I'd have thought an old pro like Foster would be embarrassed to have this published underhis name, but of course several of his previous books have disillusioned me on this account.

But I still want to know how it ends, drat it.
January 31, 2007

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