Name: Trouble Magnet

Author: Alan Dean Foster
Year: 2006
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Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

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9780345485045
9780345485052
0345485041
034548505X
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 weapons' system. All Flinx has to do-while his pals look after his injured love Clarity Held-is find the hefty object and persuade it to knock out the monstrous evil that is hurtling through space to waste the entire Commonwealth.

A no-brainer, really, especially for Flinx, who is never without his loyal entourage of official snoops, crazed zealots, assorted goons, and the occasional assassin. Indeed, the boy wonder and his mini-drag, Pip, are eager to commence their heroic task . . . just as soon as Flinx visits Visaria-a dangerously depraved planet-to convince himself that humans are indeed worth saving.

The chances of stumbling across high moral values and utopian ideals don't look promising-what with Flinx playing a lawless Pied Piper to a gang of lying, thieving juvenile delinquents. But prospects really go south when Flinx runs afoul of the corrupt planet's ruthless crime king.

Still, life is full of surprises, and Flinx is about to get smacked by a passel of them-by turns devastating, heartening, and positively jaw-dropping. For although Flinx came to Visaria to plumb the enigma of humankind, there's another mystery waiting here, a shocking clue about his own shadowy past.


From the Hardcover edition.
This book is part of the "Pip & Flinx" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"Flinx Transcendent"
First published in 2009
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"Patrimony"
First published in 2007
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"Running from the Deity"
First published in 2005
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"Sliding Scales"
First published in 2004
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"Flinx's Folly"
First published in 2002
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"Reunion"
First published in 2001
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"Mid-Flinx"
First published in 1995
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"Flinx in Flux"
First published in 1988
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"For Love of Mother-Not"
First published in 1983
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"Orphan Star"
First published in 1977
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"The End of the Matter"
First published in 1977
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"Bloodhype"
First published in 1973
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"The Tar-Aiym Krang"
First published in 1972
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"Strange Music"
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