Book Review: Strange Music by Alan Dean Foster

A few years back I read the last three books in Alan Dean Foster’s long-running ‘Pip And Flinx’ series, a light-hearted, adventurous series about the empathic Flinx and his pet mini-dragon, Pip. The air of tediousness that enveloped me as I read through them returned to mind when I received this new book which brings the series back to life.

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Book Review: Flinx Transcendent by Alan Dean Foster

Flinx Transcendent is the fourteenth and final Pip & Flinx adventure, bringing a conclusion to long-running story arcs as the duo and their friends face up to the Great Evil that threatens to engulf the galaxy. This has been put off for at least the last two books as Flinx wandered off on various other random adventures while his girlfriend Clarity was left to convalesce following an assassination attempt. This book has far more sense of purpose to it as Flinx faces up to his destiny and finally gets on with saving the galaxy.

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Book Review: Patrimony by Alan Dean Foster

This is my second Pip and Flinx book in a row, and also includes elements dealt with in the stand-alone novel Quofum that I read recently. As a result I found Patrimony much more accessible, though there were still numerous references to incidents and characters from earlier books that presumably have more meaning for long-term fans of the series. Aside from this limitation for the casual reader, I found this episode far more enjoyable than the previous volume Trouble Magnet as this time there was a definite point to the plot.

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Book Reveiw: Quofum by Alan Dean Foster

I haven’t read an Alan Dean Foster book for years. I don’t know why, I enjoyed some of the early commonwealth novels – they were always exciting and entertaining. You know the problem when you return to something from your youth: it’s just not the same.


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