Mid-Flinx

Mid-Flinx

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

OVER THE EDGEWhere Flinx and his flying minidrag Pip went, trouble always followed--that law had governed their lives through years of unsought danger and galactic intrigue. Now an evil rich man was out to kidnap the minidrag for his personal zoo, and Flinx and Pip were on the run again--this time into uncharted space, on a random course they hoped would foil their pursuers.They found more than they bargained for when they landed on Midworld, a verdant planet covered by an immense jungle, hosting an incredible variety of plant and animal life--all of it unknown and all of it deadly. And now they were in real trouble. Their hiding place was in danger of discovery, and their only hope lay with this bizarre and untamed planet . . . if it didn't kill them first!From the Paperback edition.
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Alien Nation

Alien Nation

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

MEET TWO OF L.A.’S FINEST:SYKES—THE VETERANAND FRANCISCO—THE ALIEN The time—a future closer than we know. Where groups of extraterrestrial aliens have become familiar members of our society. The place—Los Angeles. Still a town of fast times and hard crime, touching every life form inside the city limits. The cops—Sykes, earthman, and Francisco, alien. Facing a menace meaner than the meanest streets on the beat. Fighting an enemy as terrifying as the darkest forces in a vast, unfathomable universe. Battling back with the best—and the deadliest—of both their worlds.
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Chorus Skating

Chorus Skating

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

Middle-aged, lazy, and out of shape, spellsinger Jon-Tom attempts to break out of domestic drudgery with one last great adventure Jon-Tom and Mudge are bored. Their adventuring days long behind them, the spellsinger and his once-thieving otter sidekick have settled into a life of tepid domesticity, and they are sick of it. They hunger for an old-fashioned adventure, but there are no more great evils to combat. And so they decide to follow the music. Literally. A drifting cloud of lost chords has taken to floating around Jon-Tom, and following it puts them on the trail of an evil that terrifies the spellsinger. Something is stealing music. Finding out who, and why, is responsible for the silencing of the instruments will put Jon-Tom and Mudge into great peril, at the hands of a selfish elephant, a greedy black bear, and a whirlpool with a filthy sense of humor. Seeking adventure, they've stumbled into one turn that may turn out to be their last.
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Pale Rider

Pale Rider

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

A NAMELESS STRANGER rides into the corrupt and explosive gold rush town of Lahood, California. His arrival coincides with the prayer of a young girl who is hoping for a miracle to end the sudden and random violence in the community. Fifteen-year-old Megan quietly recites from the Bible: "And I looked, and beheld a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." A story of confrontation in a lawless time, the nameless stranger becomes a catalyst for hope and retribution. A struggle between ruthless corporation gunmen and innocent independent miners takes on new meaning with the appearance of an enigmatic horseman. Clint Eastwood is the Pale Rider.
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The Damned Trilogy

The Damned Trilogy

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

Three sequential tales of alien warfare in one epic volume from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Force Awakens and Star TrekInto Darkness. For millennia, the Weave, an alliance of species, have fought to resist the telepathic Amplitur, who strive to unite all self-aware life-forms in their great "Purpose." The Weave is slowly losing ground, but for both sides, warfare focuses more on outthinking and outmaneuvering your foe than destruction. In fact, most regard violence as hideously barbaric, and even the thought of harming another sentient being is beyond imagining. Then they come to Earth . . . A Call to Arms When one of its scout ships lands on Earth, the Weave quickly realizes that humanity's almost innate ability to wreak havoc and death may hold the key to turning the tide in their fight. Unfortunately for all, the Amplitur have the same idea—and mankind is caught...
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Star Trek - Log 7

Star Trek - Log 7

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

Another exciting episode from television's most popular science fiction series Complete in this volume The Counter-Clock Incident Commodore Robert April, first Captain of the Enterprise, was traveling at warp-speeds toward retirement . . . a fate worse than death for a seasoned sailor of the spaceways. There didn't seem to be any way to turn back the hands of time—but then nothing is ever certain in the outer reaches of the galaxy. Nothing, that is, except that a Klingon in pursuit means trouble . . . especially when that Klingon is the wily Commander Kumara!
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Starman

Starman

Alan Dean Foster

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Horror

THE STRANGER He came to observe life on earth—that's what happens when a peace-loving alien takes the friendly invitations we send into space seriously. But the U.S. Air Force shot down the starman's ship, and now he has to clone the body of a human being just to stay alive. Armed with a smattering of earthly lore (how to say hello in Chinese, the Stones "Satisfaction") collected from Voyager II, as well as his own mind-boggling extraterrestrial powers, he will set off with a beautiful young earth woman on what will become the greatest adventure of their lives—a dangerous flight across America into the unexplored territory of interplanetary love . . .
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