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Another fun romp with Pip and Flinx. This time our hero is forced to leave the planet he was on by a maniacal animal collector hoping to add Pip to his private zoo. Flinx tells the ship to fly to the nearest planet, and he ends up on Midworld, which is like one massive green jungle, full of...

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In a bizarre move, Disney has unilaterally suspended royalty payments to author Alan Dean Foster for his early Star Wars novels and Alien film novelisations. The SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), the closest thing US SFF authors have to a union, has taken up the case...

I've read the blurb for Relic and read a couple of reviews that seem quite positive. I'm dithering about buying it, he's not one of my 'must buy' writers but I have enjoyed some of his stuff. Views from the panel please?

The Light Years Beneath My Feet Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, July 2005, $23.95, 245 pp. ISBN 0345461282 The Viilenjii stole Chicago businessman Marcus Walker, a dog named George, and other alien species from various parts of the galaxy and are taking them to a place where they will be sold as...

Running from the Deity Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Oct 2005, $24.95, 272 pp. ISBN: 0345461592 Philip “Flinx” Lynx is the result of illegal eugenic experiments that simply proved science needs boundaries as he contains enhanced skills to propel and collect emotions from others. Currently Flinx...

The Candle of Distant Earth Alan Dean Foster Del Ray, July 2006, $23.95, 242 pp. ISBN 0345481312 On the planet Hyff, an astronomer sees three ships approaching and fear the Iollth are approaching as they do every century or so to loot and plunder. The Hyffs are pacifists by nature and simply do...

Fantasy Gone Wrong Edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Brittiany A. Koren DAW, Sep 2006, $7.99 ISBN 0756403804 This sixteen tale fantasy anthology is filled with humorous satires that ironically lampoon the genre. Fans will laugh at the slapstick musings of authors like Alan Dean Foster, Brian...

Trouble Magnet Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Nov 2006, $23.95 ISBN: 0345485041 The assignment is simple after all things he has gone through since his origin as a eugenics experiment gone bad. All Philip “Flinx” Lynx has to do is search the humongous uninhabited Sagittarius sector to find a planet...

Sagramanda Alan Dean Foster PYR, Oct 2006, $25.00 ISBN: 1591024889 Sagramanda, India is a Megatropolis of 100 million residents; the city like all major urban areas run the gamut of the economic spectrum from affluent international CEOs to those so hopelessly poor one would classify them as...

Patrimony Alan Dean Foster Berkley Nov 2007, $23.95 288 pp. ISBN 9780345485076 For years Flinx has searched the galaxy for his father, a man who sympathized with the goals and experiments of the Meliorare society, a group involved in evil eugenics. Flinx is experiment 12A of the society, the...

Quofum Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Oct 28 2008, $25.00 ISBN: 9780345496058 The Humanx Commonwealth is intrigued with the unique planet Quofum, which is outside their sector, because the orb appears to vanish and reappear off their monitors. Captain Boylen is assigned to escort four xenologists to...

Flinx Transcendent Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, May 2009, $26.00 ISBN 9780345496072 Flinx still recovers from the demoralizing events that have shaken his soul (see QUOFUM). Filled with self loathing and galaxy wide doubts he can do the mission he must do, Flinx with his loyal sidekick Pip...

The Human Blend Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Nov 23 2010, $26.00 ISBN: 9780345511973 Mankind bickered over whether climate change was voodoo until it became too late to stop the catastrophes that placed major port cities under the sea. In this new world order that includes Mars and Titan, still...

The Human Blend Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Nov 22 2011, $15.00 ISBN: 9780345511980 Mankind bickered over whether climate change was voodoo until it became too late to stop the catastrophes that placed major port cities under the sea. In this new world order that includes Mars and Titan, still...

Body, Inc. Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, Mar 27 2012, $15.00 ISBN 9780345511997 Scientist Dr. Ingrid Seastrom seeks to understand the enigma of quantum-entangled nanoscale implants. Whispr the thief has found a silver data-storage thread that he believes will make him rich and he hopes wins the...

The Sum of Her Parts Alan Dean Foster Del Rey, $15.00, Nov 27 2012 ISBN 9780345512024 Namericans Dr. Ingrid Seastrom and Whispr the emaciated thief continue their effort to understand the data thread made from a material that cannot exist. Each has different motives as Seastrom hopes this is...

I decided to read this book that belongs to my partner. We're both Trek fans and she's had a couple of these logs on her shelf for years. Theyre written by Alan Dean Foster and based on the animated series from the 70's.( Some of those episodes were penned by Larry Niven no less...) There are...

And so onto the next Pip and Flinx novel in which our young telepath and his pernicious pet seek out Flinx's father. It seems odd that this one was published in 1977, the same date as the previous book in the series. Oh well. Anyway Flinx hears of the discovery of a rogue black hole that...

Anyone else (in addition to AE35Unit) who is an ADF fan? I just read Nor Crystal Tears , which I really enjoyed. It's a nice first contact book, told from the perspective of the alien thranx. Foster clearly had a lot of fun describing humans from the alien point if view. I've now started his...