It's a great summary and it ably explains how massively important this young man is to the universe. We're given the names of the friends who sent him on this mission and the names of the groups who are searching for him, either to stop him or for other reasons. To cut even that short version down even more, he's on a mission to track down a half-million-year-old weapons platform created by a now extinct species so that he can wield it against a distant and vast menace threatening everything. ![]() Two in particular, on the second page, crunch the past, present and future into a magnificently compressed summary. ![]() Unsurprisingly, he's keen to recap here, effectively splicing 'Bloodhype' into the chronology of the series, and a few paragraphs do that job in fantastic fashion. Reading eleven and twelve in succeeding months is a real trip, as Foster isn't only a very different writer but one who sees his characters in very different ways over time. This twelfth book in the series, written no less than thirty-four years later, is as different as chalk and cheese from the first or even the eleventh book, 'Bloodhype', the anomaly of the series, which was written second, back in 1973. Alan Dean Foster started his Pip & Flinx series, indeed his career, in 1972, with a book called 'The Tar-Aiym Krang'. ![]() Any series written over a serious length of time is always going to see stylistic changes because the author will have grown over that period.
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