Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled into a mystery involving quantum-entangled nanoscale implants-a mystery that just may kill her. In a world deeply wounded by centuries of environmental damage, two unlikely souls join forces: Dr. In Body, Inc., he creates a tomorrow where genetic manipulation has become ubiquitous, and the very meaning of what it is to be human is undergoing drastic transformation. New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. As he and Pip bravely travel to a place where no man or mini-drag has gone before, Flinx discovers he has a few more friends than he thought–and far more enemies than he ever imagined. His decision is the beginning of a terrifying, high-stakes adventure through perilous new realms that will rocket him into the very heart of danger–and into the arms of the only woman he’s ever loved. Whatever happens, Flinx makes up his mind to act quickly. She is a young woman who has clearly gone on with her life in ways that (he soon learns) don’t necessarily include Flinx. Choosing a confidant is easy: Clarity Held, a crush he hasn’t seen in six years. Against such a quintessence of colossal evil what can one puny human and a formidable mini-drag protector do? Flinx must tell someone or go out of his already addled mind. Pure evil that is approaching him, accelerating. Hidden behind the Great Emptiness, in a place where it seems matter and energy have never been, there is only evil. To add insult to all that injury, Flinx has been spirited away and enlisted in a battle against a monstrous extra-galactic threat. Even before the latest murderous attack by a new gang of assailants, there seems no end to people determined to arrest, examine, or kill him. It’s a good thing Flinx is no stranger to trouble, because he’s swimming in it. It is a quest that forces him to confront a horror almost beyond human comprehension concealed somewhere in the universe. Flinx’s Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body. Codgerspaceīestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers a 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 mini-dragon. The question is, evolving into what? The excruciating headaches afflicting Flinx with increasing frequency make him wonder if he will be alive to find out. Especially since his telepathic powers seem to be evolving. After all, as one of the few Meliorare experiments to survive, Flinx has a right to know about his past. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renegade eugenicists whose experiments with human beings had horrified the civilized universe more than twenty years ago. Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. This mind-bending Pip and Flinx adventure is a roller-coaster ride into the unknown, filled with wonder and humor, and a host of deadly adversaries. Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster's eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive.Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimed Humanx universe, where a young human orphan called Flinx seeks to unlock the dangerous secrets of his past–and the uncertain prospects of his future with the aid of the formidable minidrag known as Pip.
Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard a thieving, backstabbing otter and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world-and his old one. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own.