Clearly not a craft that was part of the impressive fleet component still orbiting the planet that was rapidly receding behind it, nor one that was likely to attract undue notice. In its place gleamed the far smaller fast-moving footprint of an ordinary cargo carrier approaching changeover. Vast projecting appurtenances shimmied and vanished like the ominous illusions they were, until the menacing martial shape had imploded completely. Lethal wave-form projectors shrank and slivered. Intimidating weapons blisters collapsed in upon themselves like so many glistening, harmless bubbles. From the Hardcover edition.Ī most peculiar thing happened to the battleship as it departed the Repler system: initially daunting in size and form, it proceeded to undergo a kind of reverse metamorphosis, as if a butterfly were turning backward into an ungainly caterpillar. 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. Still, life is full of surprises, and Flinx is about to get smacked by a passel of themby turns devastating, heartening, and positively jaw-dropping. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs afoul of the corrupt planet's ruthless crime king. The chances of stumbling across high moral values and utopian ideals don't look promisingwhat with Flinx playing a lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving juvenile delinquents.

just as soon as Flinx visits Visariaa dangerously depraved planetto convince himself that humans are indeed worth saving.

Indeed, the boy wonder and his mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence their heroic task. 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.

All Flinx has to dowhile his pals look after his injured love Clarity Heldis find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire Commonwealth. Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons' system. In this dazzling new novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy's greatest magnet for big trouble. 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.

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