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Upset that Flinx, who does not reveal the true extent of his talents, was hardly the super-genetic success they had hoped for, Flinx's creator attempts to kill him, but only wounds the minidrag Pip before Flinx's erratic yet powerful mental gifts save his life, but destroy all traces of the
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In the previous volume of the series, Flinx was told his male parent, a former member of the Meliorare Society, was now living on an obscure minor planet that was part of the Commonwealth. Though the information was suspect, coming from a dying member of the Meliorares, Flinx jumped at the
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Following a series of adventures, including his attempted murder at the hands of a local hit man hired by the Order of Null, Flinx finds his father. Or rather, he finds the last man associated with his creation. Since Flinx is a semi-successful experiment in
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Once again diverting from his assigned task of finding the ancient Tar-Aiym weapon that will help save the galaxy from the approaching evil, Flinx lands on the planet Gestalt, known as Tlel to its natives, looking for his father.
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Alan Dean Foster
Science fiction
Del Rey Books
ISBN
0-345-48507-6
OCLC
136782072
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Trouble Magnet
Flinx Transcendent
Alan Dean Foster
eugenics
Patrimony
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Alan Dean Foster homepage
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Humanx Commonwealth
Midworld
Cachalot
Nor Crystal Tears
Voyage to the City of the Dead

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