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Cover artist Dean Ellis Language English Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 1972 Preceded by For Love of Mother-Not Publisher Ballantine Books | 4/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 1972 Pages 251 pp Genre Science Fiction Followed by Orphan Star, Bloodhype | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The tar aiym krang
The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. It is Foster’s first published novel and started both his Humanx Commonwealth universe and his two most popular recurring characters, Pip and Philip Lynx ("Flinx"). The book is second chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.
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The story follows Flinx, an orphan and a thief, as he steals a starmap from a dead body, that leads to a strange alien artifact on an abandoned world. This simple, chance adventure is the beginning of Flinx’s quest to discover the identities of his parents and the source of his strange mental abilities.
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