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Cover artist Darrell K. Sweet Language English Media type Print (paperback) Originally published 1977 Publisher Del Rey Books | 3.9/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1977 ISBN 0-345-29594-3 Preceded by Orphan Star, Bloodhype | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Orphan Star, Flinx in Flux Genres Novel, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative fiction Similar Alan Dean Foster books, Flinx books, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The End of the Matter (1977) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is fourth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.
Contents
Plot introduction
The novel takes place immediately after Orphan Star with Flinx taking his new space ship, Teacher built by the Ulru-Ujurrians, to Alaspin, the home planet of his minidrag Pip, in search of the man who bid on him when Flinx was a child in a slave auction.
Plot summary
He not only finds this man, Skua September, but also acquires a strange new alien pet Abalamahalamatandra—Ab for short—and is pursued by an assassin squad called the Qwarm. Flinx’s friends Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex show up looking for Ab in the hope of finding an ancient weapon, thought to possibly be capable of stopping a rogue black hole; before the three inhabited planets on the black hole's course are sucked in.