Mid-Flinx (Adventures of Pip & Flinx)

My goodness! Take one of the best books ever written (Midworld) and throw in Flinx and his wonderful Pip, and you have a recipe for a best-seller. I drooled at the prospect of going back to Midworld, and when I saw Flinx was involved, I couldn't believe my eyes. Foster's descriptions of plants, animals, and the humans there (not to mention a great story) are just incredible. I don't know where he gets his ideas, but I envy his talent. I still consider Foster the King of Description.

This 1996 entry in the popular science fiction "Flinx" series is non-stop action space-adventure from first page to last. Flinx, the product of illegal genetic experiments, who grew up an orphan on the streets, has the useful but stressful and uncontrollable ability to read emotions in those around him. As the story opens, Flinx, 20 and the owner of an interstellar space craft with a unique drive, is at loose ends, looking for peace and quiet on a backwater world. But the local bully takes a shine to Flinx's longtime companion, an empathic and poisonous flying snake, or minidrag, and insists on buying it. When the situation becomes life-threatening, Flinx and his snake, Pip, flee the planet, instructing the space ship to fly into random uncharted space. The ship takes them to a supposedly undiscovered planet, covered with jungle a mile thick. Flinx exits his lander - and is nearly killed by a huge, transparent flying creature. But something draws him on to explore this lush and beautiful world where the flowers have hidden teeth and even the water may reach up and grab you. For the first time in years, his headaches are gone. Risking death with every cautious step, he is finally rescued from a most ingenious botanical predator by a band of humans - descendants of a lost colony ship long forgotten. These humans have companions, not pets, but apparently native creatures whose lives are bound inextricably (unto death) with their particular human. And they and the humans have some sort of peculiar empathic relationship with the planet. Meanwhile, Flinx's enemies are hot on his trail -- no sooner is one set apparently neutralized than another appears. Foster has a lot of fun with the creation of this life-teeming world. Everything has a function and a place in the planetary, evolutionary scheme of things. And it appears this strange and marvelously dangerous place has some importance in the destiny that draws Flinx through this series. Readers will hope so anyway as Foster's latest creation offers an endless source of thrills and surprise.

I love all of foster's pip-and-flinx book's and am waiting fro the next. There are still a lot of unanswered questions fro all of his books that I wish he qwould answer. If anyone has heardf of qa new Flinx book please tell me???

I am a hopelessly captured Flinx fan! I also have always loved the classic Foster novel Midworld. When these two concepts collided, what could be better? Mid-Flinx was a fantastically fun book with a lot of surprises! I can't wait for Foster's next Flinx epic! It just keeps getting better and better!

Foster returns to the Thranx-Human Commonwealth in this continuation of the Flinx and Pip series that expands his tale of Midworld, the sentient green world. The plot expands on the growth and maturation of Flinx in his ever continuing quest to discover his heritage and his future potential. Some tantalizing hints are given about his future role in the universe in the process of his discovery and exploration of Midworld. The description of Midworld wild- and tame-life are as fascinating and as riveting as Foster ever is