- Hardcover: 331 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (Nov 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345383745
- ISBN-13: 978-0345383747
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,742,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Flinx: born in controversy as the product of illegal genetic experiments. Flinx: raised an orphan in the streets of Drallar on the planet Moth. Flinx: the extraordinary young man with a rare flying snake for a companion, always the inadvertent center of danger and galactic intrigue. Now in his twenties, and owner of a remarkable interstellar spacecraft, he wanted nothing more than to sink into obscurity, posing as a tourist on the backwater worlds of the Commonwealth. But even here he could not escape the attention of a rich local bully who was determined to acquire the minidrag Pip for his personal zoo. Flinx wanted only to avoid trouble, but where Flinx and Pip went, trouble followed.
Flinx hoped to elude pursuit by fleeing randomly into uncharted space--seemingly the only place he would find the peace he craved. Instead, he made one of the most startling discoveries of his life: a verdant planet covered by an immense jungle, miles deep, hosting an incredible variety of plant and animal life, all of it unknown and all of it deadly. But stranger still, Flinx found humans living there, the descendants of a lost colony ship from the earliest days of human expansion into space. These people called their home Midworld, for the middle levels of the jungle treetops where they lived.
Flinx would need their help to survive in this wild and wonderful place, especially when his tenacious pursuers discovered his hiding place....
Flinx hoped to elude pursuit by fleeing randomly into uncharted space--seemingly the only place he would find the peace he craved. Instead, he made one of the most startling discoveries of his life: a verdant planet covered by an immense jungle, miles deep, hosting an incredible variety of plant and animal life, all of it unknown and all of it deadly. But stranger still, Flinx found humans living there, the descendants of a lost colony ship from the earliest days of human expansion into space. These people called their home Midworld, for the middle levels of the jungle treetops where they lived.
Flinx would need their help to survive in this wild and wonderful place, especially when his tenacious pursuers discovered his hiding place....
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If everyone's going to chase me, Flinx thought, I should've been born with eyes in the back of my head. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This was the first Flinx book I had read but even that did not stop my enjoyment of it. I really want to read the others now. I found you could really understand the characters, especially Flinx.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As a science fiction book, this is a very good read. It follows the continuing adventures of Pip and Flinx. It should be noted that this book doesn't deal very much with Pip's (very) strange background. Instead, this is more of a self-contained adventure on a stange and intriguing planet.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Another episode in the life of flinx, i've been having withdrawl syptoms from ADF, raising kids has taken up too much time. Now my son is old enough to start on sci-fi/fantasy i'm introducing him slowly to my favourite author, and i'm catching up on the books i missed in the meantime. ADF is always a good read, even his novlisations of films read back better than the screenplays, check the alien trilogy if you don't believe me.
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