The End of the Matter
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | 1977 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-29594-3 |
| Preceded by | Orphan Star |
| Followed by | Flinx in Flux |
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
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[edit] External links
- The End of the Matter publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alan Dean Foster homepage
| Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Novels |
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| Stand Alone Novels |
| Cachalot | Drowning World | The Howling Stones | Midworld | Nor Crystal Tears | Sentenced to Prism | Voyage to the City of the Dead |
| Pip and Flinx |
| For Love of Mother-Not | The Tar-Aiym Krang | Orphan Star | The End of the Matter | Flinx in Flux | Mid-Flinx | Reunion | Flinx's Folly | Sliding Scales | Running from the Deity | Bloodhype | Trouble Magnet | Patrimony |
| Founding of the Commonwealth |
| Phylogenesis | Dirge | Diurnity's Dawn |
| The Icerigger Trilogy |
| Icerigger | Mission to Moulokin | The Deluge Drivers |
