There are few real surprises in this nostalgic novel, as Flinx continues to pursue all sources of knowledge of his birth parents.
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Featuring the Alaspinian minidrag Pip and the intellectually enhanced Phillip Lynx (Flinx), this is the seventh in an ongoing series that began with For Love of Mother Not. The question is, evolving into what? The excruciating headaches afflicting Flinx with increasing frequency make him wonder if he will be alive to find out.īestseller Foster has created yet another entertaining adventure story in the far-flung reaches of a far-future outer space. Especially since his telepathic powers seem to be evolving.
After all, as one of the few Meliorare experiments to survive, Flinx has a right to know about his past. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renegade eugenicists whose experiments with human beings had horrified the civilized universe more than twenty years ago. Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. This mind-bending Pip and Flinx adventure is a roller-coaster ride into the unknown, filled with wonder and humor, and a host of deadly adversaries. Still readable though.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. When is Flinx going to go hunting for the means of destroying the evil waiting to destroy mankind? Hopefully soon. It's just that there are so many of the Pip and Flinx books. This series is becoming a yawner (cannot stay awake). I like following the lives of characters I meet in books. The ending gives some sort of closure while ensuring that the reader understands that there will be further installments. At the same time they find helpers all along the road. As with all of the other books, Flinx and Pip experience life-threatening situations that hinder them in their search. Flinx is still looking for his father and he believes that this is the place to look. There they find a remarkably laid-back population. Pip and Flinx have landed on the planet Gestalt. What a compliment to have your work copied. I've actually found another series where the characters are pretty identical to these two. I've followed the Pip and Flinx adventures since they began. Flinx gets a chance to test his adversary's skills when our hero's skimmer is blasted out of the sky and into a raging river in the middle of nowhere - a nowhere of impassable terrain and ravenous, carnivorous beasts.īut hey, what's one more impossible challenge for someone who's spent his life defying the odds and escaping the inescapable? Flinx has one thing going for him.plenty of experience.īONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction written and read by author Alan Dean Foster. Unfortunately for Flinx, Gestalt also hosts a resident bounty hunter who's just learned about the stupendous reward offered for a certain dead redhead.
(Sorry, galaxy!)Ĭould Gestalt supply the key to Flinx's shadowy past and strange powers? An eccentric longer in a remote area of the distant planet could be he father Flinx has never stopped searching for, perhaps the only person who can unravel the mystery of Flinx's birth and his amazing, agonizing powers. Flinx might agree with them - but the quest for patrimony wins out.
So Flinx and his minidrag, Pip, venture to Gestalt, an out-of-the-way planet perfect for someone who never wants to be found - disregarding the advice of those who think Flinx could make better use of his time locating the ancient, sentient weapons platform that could be the galaxy's only chance of stopping the exterminating scourge that's fast approaching. Gestalt."Ī shocked Flinx hears these dying words from one of the renegade eugenicists whose experiments with humans 20-odd years ago shocked the galaxy.and spawned Flinx. In Patrimony, fans will learn more about their favorite redhead - with emerald eyes, uncanny powers, and a poisonous minidrag - than they ever dreamed possible. In this new Pip & Flinx thriller, Alan Dean Foster displays the brilliance that has made him one of the brightest lights in science fiction.