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Rate Bestselling Sci-Fi/ Fantasy (2007) - Mid-Flinx by Alan Dean Foster

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Rate BSC Weekly Round-Up: The Cheat Sheet 6/13/09

Original at BSCreview external link    Sat, Jun 13

 New Jersey Professor Crazy reviews Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster. - The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint is reviewed by DWT. Be sure to check out all of the reviews at BSC. Please remember that you can use Twitter, Facebook and your blog/site to ...

Rate Friends give library money for materials

Original at Superior Telegram external link    Tue, May 26

 MN New fiction includes: “Gone Tomorrow” by Lee Child, “Among the Mad” by Jacqueline Winspear, “Assegai” by Wilbur Smith, “Flinx Transcendent” by Alan Dean Foster, “The Secret” by Beverly Lewis, “Just Take My Heart” by Mary Higgins Clark, and “Long Lost” ...

Rate Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by Alan Dean Foster - Cover ...

Original at TFormers.com external link    Mon, May 18

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He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several ... and more »

Rate Fiction Reviews

Original at Publishers Weekly external link    Sun, Mar 15

 NY May) Flinx Transcendent Alan Dean Foster. Del Rey, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-49607-2 Flinx and his feisty minidrag, Pip, reunite with old friends for one final slam-bang universe rescue in the 14th title of one of science fiction's longest running ...

Rate book review on mid-flinx

Original at expotv.com external link    Sat, Feb 28

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This is a video review of Mid-Flinx by Alan Dean Foster. i think this is the best book in this series of novels, I realy enjoyed reading it www.expotv.com

Rate Flinx's Folly by Alan Dean Foster

Original at expotv.com external link    Fri, Feb 27

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This is a video review of Flinx's Folly (Adventures of Pip and Flinx). A good book in the series www.expotv.com

Rate A Pip & Flinx Adventure Sliding Scales by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Sat, Dec 20    2 related articles

A Pip & Flinx Adventure Sliding Scales Written by Alan Dean FostereBook, 288 pages | Del Rey | Fiction - Science Fiction - Adventure; Fiction - Science Fiction - Space Opera; Fiction - Science Fiction | $6.99 | 978-0-307-54666-1 (0-307-54666-7)

Rate Quofum : a novel of the Commonwealth / Alan Dean Foster.

Original at catalog.westervillelibrary.org external link    Tue, Nov 11

probe is stunned by the sudden materialization of an entirely new planet known as Quofum, populated by extraordinary inhabitants whose intentions are quite mysterious, in an interstellar adventure set in the world of PIP and Flinx.

Rate More Cool Audiobook News!

Original at davidjbatista (Blogspot) external link    Fri, Nov 7

By David Batista Alan Dean Foster has updated over at his official website that audio versions of his acclaimed ongoing sci-fi series, Flinx of the Commonwealth, has been contracted for release through Audible! Yay! What better time for me to hop onto ...

Rate Quofum: A Novel Of The Commonwealth - Alan Dean Foster

Original at randall120 (WordPress) external link    Wed, Nov 5

By randy Johnson The discoveries they eventually make are tied into Alan Dean Foster’s Pip and Flinx series and their hunt for the weapon to fight the coming darkness that will destroy everything. Alan Dean Foster excels in this type of story. ...

Rate Mobipocket eBook: "How to Profit From the Coming Rapture" by Ellis ...

Original at MOBIPOCKET STORE external link    Sat, Nov 1

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers the eagerly awaited new Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying ...

Rate Blogging the Journey | Bestsellers

Original at Blogging the Journey external link    Sat, Nov 1

Clone Elite (Clone #04) STEVEN L KENT. 6. Patrimony (A Pip and Flinx Adventure) ALAN DEAN FOSTER. 7. Anathem NEAL STEPHENSON. 8. Pirate King (Forgotten Realms: Transitions) R A SALVATORE. 9. Rangers Apprentice #8: The Kings of Clonmel ...

Rate Quofum (A Novel Of The Commonwealth) by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Crows Nest external link    Sat, Nov 1

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 - The blurb to the book makes the point that this novel provides vital background information to the final 'Pip And Flinx' book due out next year. ...

Rate 50 Book Challenge - October reading

Original at 50 Book Challenge external link    Sat, Nov 1

By 50bookchallenge Now I’m just waiting for the last book to get into paperback. 126. Patrimony by Alan Dean Foster (255 pgs) 44603 Flinx chases after information about his father on a very inhospitable planet and finds some unwelcome truths. ...

Rate Saturday, November 1 Alan Dean Foster and Gregory Maguire

Original at Events at the Poisoned Pen external link    Tue, Oct 28

By The Poisoned Pen Bookstore Saturday, November 1 Join us for a potluck as bestselling author Alan Dean Foster discusses and sig foster ns his new adventure Quofum. Journey to the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of the ever-popular Pip & Flinx. ...

Rate Book Buzz: What's the Scariest Book You Ever Read? | Mania.com

Original at Comics2Film external link    Fri, Oct 24

Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s new adventure takes place in the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of the ever-popular Pip & Flinx. Although the dynamic redhead and his daring minidrag do not appear in Quofum, this knockout ...

Rate Alan Dean Foster

Original at bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com external link    Wed, Oct 22

By Nelsmom So which of these series do you like and which of them did you just disliked? Pip and Flinx. Icerigger. Humanx Commonwealth. With Friends. Alien. Spellsinger. Damned. Journey Of The Catechist. Founding Of The Commonwealth ...

Rate Books received 10/16/08 Part One

Original at revolutionsf.com external link    Thu, Oct 16

By Rick Klaw klutzrick@gmail.com Quofum by Alan Dean Foster Promo copy: Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s new adventure takes place in the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of the ever-popular Pip & Flinx. Although the dynamic redhead and his daring minidrag ...

Rate Quofum by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Mon, Oct 13

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Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s new adventure takes place in the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of the ever-popular Pip & Flinx. Although the dynamic redhead and his daring minidrag do not appear in Quofum, this knockout thriller sets the stage for their explosive date wi...

Rate Patrimony: A Pip & Flinx Adventure by Alan Dean Foster

Original at bookstothesky's books from LibraryThing external link    Mon, Oct 13

Del Rey (2008), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 272 pages tags: science fiction, flinx.

Rate Quofum-Alan Dean Foster

Original at harstan (WordPress) external link    Sat, Oct 11

By harstan This is a well written tale crucial to the expected final Pip and Flinx novel though the two stars never appear in QUOFUM. The story line is fast-paced and exciting, but disappointingly never finishes any key thread; instead it sets the ...

Rate Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster - eBook - Random House

Original at Random House external link    Sun, Oct 5

Flinx Transcendent. A Pip & Flinx Adventure. Written by Alan Dean Foster · Author Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Alan Dean Foster · Upgrade to the Flash 9 viewer for enhanced content, including the ability to browse ...

Rate really random, & long, but something to do.

Original at maddieki (Livejournal) external link    Sat, Oct 4

By Ki Midshipman's Hope by David Feintuch. The Collected Works of Raymond E. Feist. The Flinx of the Commonwealth Series by Alan Dean Foster. Splinter of the Mind's Eye by Alan Dean Foster. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. ...

Rate SPOTLIGHT: Books of October 2008

Original at Fantasy Book Critic external link    Tue, Sep 30

By Robert Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s (Spellsinger, Star Trek, Dinotopia, Transformers) new adventure takes place in the amazing Humanx Commonwealth, home of the ever-popular Pip & Flinx novels (Patrimony, Trouble Magnet). ...

Rate Patrimony by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Mon, Sep 29

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In this new Pip & Flinx thriller, Alan Dean Foster displays the brilliance that has made him one of the brightest lights in science fiction. In Patrimony, fans will learn more about their favorite redhead–with emerald eyes, uncanny powers, and a poisonous minidrag–than they ever dr...

Rate Intel Software Network Blogs » Rereading Classic Science Fiction

Original at Intel Software Network Blogs external link    Thu, Sep 25

By Aharon Robbins (Intel) Knut Grunwald, I would suggest Alan Dean Foster. The Commonwealth and the Spellsinger series. The Spellsinger series is fun to read (The first 6 are better than 7&8), but not very science fiction. The Commonwealth/Flinx series is also ...

Rate Quick book review

Original at webtarkeena external link    Wed, Sep 24

Patrimony: A Pip and Flinx Adventure" - Alan Dean Foster I remember reading about Flinx and his deadly minidrag Pip when I was an early teen, and I remember enjoying them - although perhaps feeling that some of the themes were too ...

Rate Snake Eyes - Alan Dean Foster

Original at Not Free SF Reader external link    Thu, Sep 11

By Blue Tyson Pip and Flinx, Uh, energy started flyin' every where, And people started to scream! Big man lyin' on the ground...made a jailbreak quite a while ago though. 3 out of 5.

Rate Flinx in Flux (Pip and Flinx Novels) by Alan Dean Foster in In the ...

Original at BookCrossing Feed for Books Recently Released external link    Wed, Aug 13

By 4libros Unless otherwise noted, this book will be released to a large bin of books in my van. Wherever I go, I release books, choosing randomly from the bin as needed. However, I also maintain three official crossing zones: 13th Street Coffee ...

Rate 15 Memorable Alien Races in Science Fiction

Original at The List Universe external link    Wed, Aug 13

By jfrater Alan Dean Foster has penned a number of works set in the Human-Thranx (Humanx) Commonwealth, but most deal with well-known characters such as Flinx and Pip, with the Thranx being in the background if appearing at all. ...

Rate Twice Loved Books

Original at webring.com external link    Thu, Aug 7

An illustrated bibliography for the prolific author Alan Dean Foster! The autor of such series as the meta-series "The Humanx Commonwealth" comprised of the Pip&Flinx novels, the Icerigger trilogy, the Humanx Commonwealth novels and the ...

Rate Comic Con debrief

Original at chris external link    Tue, Jul 29

On Saturday I had lunch with my friend, senior editor Chris Schluep of Del Rey and one of his authors, Alan Dean Foster, creator of Pip and Flinx and, of course, writer of the Star Wars classic Splinter of the Mind's Eye. ...

Rate Exceptions to Reality by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Mon, Jul 28

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Written by Alan Dean FostereBook | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Science Fiction - Short Stories | $6.99 | 978-0-345-50781-5 (0-345-50781-9) Growth Not even his minidrag Pip can save Flinx from the overly intimate advances of an intruder who goes entirely too far.

Rate Mobipocket eBook: "Robert's Rules For Dummies" by Jennings, C ...

Original at MOBIPOCKET STORE external link    Sun, Jul 27

by Alan Dean Foster $6.99 [Book 3 of Pip and Flinx] Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra--Ab for short--Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his ...

Rate Flinx in Flux by Alan Dean Foster

Original at SciFi with a Dash of Paprika external link    Fri, Jun 20

By Kristin Book 6 in the Pip and Flinx series. Flinx is on the jungle world of Alaspin, releasing Pips offsping (Pip became a she in the previous novel) when he finds a lady in distress. He saves her, brings her back to health and discovers ...

Rate Alan Dean Foster

Original at blog.sanriotown.com external link    Sat, Jun 7

By avid-reader:hellokitty.com Has written a ton of books, mostly sci-fi but some non sci-fi like a Dinotopia novel. Most of what I’ve read of his is from the Pip & Flinx series. This series is in the far future where humans have colonized many other planets and ...

Rate Book: Patrimony

Original at Jevlir Caravansary external link    Wed, May 21

By Henry Neufeld This is another Pip & Flinx adventure. I have to confess that while I love Alan Dean Foster, who is one of those authors I look for on most trips to the library and every trip to the bookstore, I am getting a little overdosed on these ...

Rate Astronomers search for orphan stars using newly upgraded telescope

Original at Brightsurf.com external link    Tue, May 20

Sea Star : Orphan of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry. Flinx of the Commonwealth (For Love of Mother-not, the Tar-aiym Krang and Orphan Star) by Alan Dean Foster Includes For Love of Mother-Not, The Tar-Aiym Krang and Orphan Star. ...

Rate Alan Dean Foster | Interviews | SCI FI Weekly

Original at scifi.com external link    Sun, Apr 20

He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Flinx & Pip novels, as well as novelizations of several movies, including Star Wars, the first three Alien movies, The Black Hole, ...

Rate Running from the Deity by Alan Dean Foster

Original at genrereviews (Livejournal) external link    Sun, Mar 23

Series: Pip and Flinx Publisher: Del Rey, 2006 Genre: Science fiction Sub-genre: Space opera Rating: 3 pints of blood You know, I have to admit the cover here isn't too bad. It's dynamic, it's interesting, it's enough to make me pick up ...

Rate Patrimony: A Pip & Flinx Adventure (Pip & Flix Adventures)

Original at Bookins.com external link    Mon, Feb 18

By Alan Dean Foster Hardcover, 2007 In this new Pip & Flinx thriller, Alan Dean Foster displays the brilliance that has made him one of the brightest lights in science fiction. In Patrimony, fans will learn more about their favorite redhead–with ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Impossible Places by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Mon, Dec 17

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For three decades science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world, from his debut classic The Tar-Aiym Krang and his inspired scenario for the first Star Trek movie to a host of New York Times bestsellers, including Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and Flinx in F...

Rate Trouble Magnet by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Mon, Oct 29

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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.

Rate FreeBookSpot Latest Books: Commonwealth Stories by Alan Dean Foster

Original at eBooksBay external link    Tue, Oct 16

He is best known for his science fiction novels set in the Humanx Commonwealth, an interstellar ethical/political union of species including humankind and the insectoid Thranx. Many of these novels feature Philip Lynx ("Flinx"), ...

Rate The Candle of Distant Earth by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Random House external link    Mon, Jul 30

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From science fiction legend and New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster, creator of the ever-popular Pip and Flinx series, comes the climactic final novel in The Taken trilogy, his electrifying space epic about a man and his dog for whom the expression “out of this world” take...

Rate the worst book of the year so far? Transformers by Alan Dean Foster

Original at bonerici external link    Fri, Jun 15

And Alan Dean Foster adapted the screen play, Foster is a decent writer, he wrote those Pip & Flinx adventures, and adapted other screen plays. The book starts off great, millions of years ago, on a war ravaged planet, the transformers ...

Year 2006

 

Rate Because I haven't posted in too long.

Original at The Perpetual Beginner external link    Wed, Dec 13

By PerpetualBeginner Flinx in Flux - Alan Dean Foster: It's a Flinx and Pip adventure. This time Flinx stumbles upon a (lovely, female) gengineer who's been kidnapped, rescues her, and returns her from whence she came. As ever in Flinx's life, though, ...

Rate Fencon III: Alan Dean Foster, Jim Butcher, Heather Alexander are ...

Original at Dallas 411 external link    Wed, Sep 6

By Dallas Area Information Alan Dean Foster, award winning creator of works such as the Spellsinger series and the Pip and Flinx series as well as the author of over one hundred books and several movie adaptations including Alien, Clash of the Titans, ...

Rate 8 - Alan Dean Foster, Impossible Places9 - Alan Dean Foster, The ...

Original at Doper 50 book challenge external link    Mon, Jan 30

Impossible Places is a short-story collection, some of them fun, some of them rather laboured (one of them, as Foster points out in his brief introduction, is literally a shaggy-dog story); the selling point is "a new Pip and Flinx ...

Year 2005

 

Rate Review: Running From the Deity by Alan Dean Foster

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Nov 27

By Bill Wallo The interstellar adventures of Flinx and Pip, an empath and his mini-dragon, continue.

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