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Country United States Publication date 1983 Pages 256 pp Originally published 1983 Preceded by Orphan Star | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (paperback) ISBN 0-345-34689-0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Fiction, Fantasy, Novel, Science Fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction Similar Alan Dean Foster books, Flinx books, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For Love of Mother-Not (1983) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is chronologically the first in the Pip and Flinx series, though it was written fourth, as a prequel to help flesh out Flinx’s early history.
Plot introduction
The story of Flinx is begun in this novel, exploring his early years growing up with Mother Mastiff on the planet Moth. Young Philip Lynx is purchased in a slave auction by Mother Mastiff for one hundred credits. After years of raising the boy, whose full origins are unknown to his adoptive mother, she suddenly disappears. Flinx pursues her across the rainy world of Moth and discovers she has been kidnapped by the mysterious Meliorare Society, a group known to have experimented with eugenics that might very well be the source of Flinx’s unusual talents.
Flinx is gifted with empathic powers and able to project emotions and read the emotions of others. Mother Mastiff also realizes later on that it was not her desire to buy the boy but his desire to be bought that was intentionally pushed on to her by Flinx.