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Trouble Magnet (Pip & Flinx Adventures #11)
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 wea...more
Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym wea...more
Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Published
October 30th 2007
by Del Rey Books
(first published November 28th 2006)
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Trouble Magnet by Alan Dean Foster (2006)
The Flinx and Pip duo is a long standing team in SF. The boy and his “dog,” in this case an Alaspinian flying snake, whose venom makes the Giger’s Alien’s blood look like orange juice. Trouble Magnet is billed as yet another adventure of this pair and in a way that tells you want to expect from this book. Magnet delivers an amiable, mildly adventurous story showcasing the Phillip Lynx aka Flinx (an esper from a eugenics program) and the dea...more
The Flinx and Pip duo is a long standing team in SF. The boy and his “dog,” in this case an Alaspinian flying snake, whose venom makes the Giger’s Alien’s blood look like orange juice. Trouble Magnet is billed as yet another adventure of this pair and in a way that tells you want to expect from this book. Magnet delivers an amiable, mildly adventurous story showcasing the Phillip Lynx aka Flinx (an esper from a eugenics program) and the dea...more
Flinx gets involved with some gang kids while trying to decide if humanity is worth saving.
Basically, Foster slaps on the name of Pip and Flinx to sell this mediocre Commonwealth novel. A bit of action, and very little whining by Flinx, make this book mediocre instead of abysmal.
Foster appears to have run out of ideas, real ideas, for Flinx and this novel really shows that. Nothing original, nothing exciting, no advancement of the "Must stop the BIG BAD Thing that ...more
Basically, Foster slaps on the name of Pip and Flinx to sell this mediocre Commonwealth novel. A bit of action, and very little whining by Flinx, make this book mediocre instead of abysmal.
Foster appears to have run out of ideas, real ideas, for Flinx and this novel really shows that. Nothing original, nothing exciting, no advancement of the "Must stop the BIG BAD Thing that ...more
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This is the 12th book in the Pip and Flinx series. Alan Dean Foster has been writing this series sporadically for over 20 years.
It follows a familiar pattern. Flinx lands on a new planet. As usually, he get into trouble. In this case, he stops a youth gang from mugging the alien Thranx. But Flinx has had run-ins with the police as a youngman, so he permits one young man, Subar, to espace and eene goes with him.
The juvenile delinquents don't learn from mistake one, a...more
It follows a familiar pattern. Flinx lands on a new planet. As usually, he get into trouble. In this case, he stops a youth gang from mugging the alien Thranx. But Flinx has had run-ins with the police as a youngman, so he permits one young man, Subar, to espace and eene goes with him.
The juvenile delinquents don't learn from mistake one, a...more
Bryan457
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Flinx starts out to find a weapon to use against the hungry evil accelerating toward the galaxy, only to be diverted to... Wait didn't we do this in "Running From the Deity?" Actually, Flinx decides to go to some scummy crime ridden planet to evaluate humanity and see if it is worth his time to bother trying to save the galaxy.
Flinx spends his time trying to salvage a young gang member from the streets. He annoys the local crime lords, and gets himself in mortal peril where...more
Flinx spends his time trying to salvage a young gang member from the streets. He annoys the local crime lords, and gets himself in mortal peril where...more
Pip and Flinx. Traveling to visaria to see if humans are worth saving. Series is getting darker which is not necessarily better.
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Hey, this isn't a great work of literature but it beats watching your toenails grow.
This latest entry in Foster's long running chronicles of Flinx & Pip is heavier on reflection and shorter on action than most of the previous volumes. It's a good story nonetheless, all about Flinx trying to decide if the universe is -worth- saving or not. I was a little let down by the resolution because it came in completely out of left field and there's no way it could have been foreseen. Up to that point, though, it was a good read.
A little wordy with scattered dialogue but a good adventure for Pip and Flinx.
Still a good read but not as much fun as his earlier works in this series.
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Pip & Flinx adventure story #13
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Standard Pip and Flinx fare.
read 12.17.06
very good series.
very good series.
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Bestselling science fiction writer Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in 1946, but raised mainly in California. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968, and a M.F.A. in 1969. Foster lives in Arizona with his wife, but he enjoys traveling because it gives him opportunities to meet new people and explore new places and cultures. This interest is carried over to his writing,...more
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