And that turns out to be Midworld, an apparently undiscovered (see that earlier novel for why that's not strictly true) world whose entire surface is taken up by a rainforest a mile deep. He points his unique spaceship in a random direction and tells it to stop at the first planet in its general path. He is entirely unable to comprehend the concept of taking no for an answer.Īnd so Flinx (and Pip) depart Samstead with the simple and admirable goal of avoiding trouble. Oh, and by 'wants to add', I mean 'aims to acquire by any means necessary'. This character collects exotic animals and wants to add Pip to his zoo. Well, if that was the case, we wouldn't have a story, so it's hardly surprising when his peace is shattered by an entitled local douche by the name of Jack-Jax Landsdowne Coerlis. After the eventful life that he's had thus far, he simply aches for peace and quiet and Samstead seems like a pretty good bet to provide it. There's nothing of note on Samstead, which is why Flinx is there.
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Initially, Flinx isn't on Midworld at all, but another new planet to the series called Samstead.
I wonder how often I'll need to pause Pip & Flinx to jump sideways. I'm expecting that its story serves as a background plot device here, suggesting that it probably ought to be the next on my Alan Dean Foster reading list. I haven't read it yet, but the synopsis is eerily familiar. But hey, the 1975 novel called 'Midworld' would seem to be notably pertinent here, as it takes place on a planet that constitutes the backdrop for the bulk of this novel, written two decades later. And those standalone novels like 'Cachalot', 'Nor Crystal Tears' and 'Voyage to the City of the Dead'? I'll take a look at those later too. So there's an 'Icerigger' trilogy that began in 1974, when Pip & Flinx were only two books in, and wrapped up in 1987, right before 'Flinx in Flux'? Shrug. Well, until now, that hasn't mattered at all.
However, the real confusion factor is the fact that the Pip & Flinx books are a mere subset of Foster's output set within the Humanx Commonwealth, an output that began with a 1972 short story called 'The Emoman' and continued with a variety of other short stories and novels.
This is the sixth book chronologically in the Pip & Flinx series, appearing seven years after book five, 'Flinx in Flux', though 'Bloodhype', published a decade and a half earlier, counts as book eleven. My previous reviews of Alan Dean Foster's books ably highlight how difficult it is to figure out in which order to read them.
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