Bloodhype
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | 1973 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-33285-7 |
| Preceded by | Running from the Deity |
| Followed by | Trouble Magnet |
Bloodhype (1973) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is eleventh chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series, though it was written second, and it is an oddity for the characters since they only appear in the last third of the book. Foster originally started the novel as a stand-alone work, but was encouraged by his publishers to include the characters from his previous novel.[citation needed]
The novel takes its title from a deadly and addictive drug, for which there is no known antidote, which causes instant addiction followed by a long, slow, painful death unless the user continues to take increasingly greater doses. The main action follows a pair of investigators tracking down the manufacturer of the illegal substance. Events conspire to bring in Pip and Flinx along with an alien intelligence so powerful that it devours all life on the planets it attacks.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Bloodhype publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alan Dean Foster homepage
| Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Novels |
|---|
| Stand Alone Novels |
| Midworld | Cachalot | Nor Crystal Tears | Voyage to the City of the Dead | Sentenced to Prism | The Howling Stones | Drowning World |
| Pip and Flinx |
| For Love of Mother-Not | The Tar-Aiym Krang | Orphan Star | The End of the Matter | Flinx in Flux | Bloodhype | Mid-Flinx | Reunion | Flinx's Folly | Sliding Scales | Running from the Deity | Trouble Magnet | Patrimony |
| Founding of the Commonwealth |
| Phylogenesis | Dirge | Diuturnity's Dawn |
| The Icerigger Trilogy |
| Icerigger | Mission to Moulokin | The Deluge Drivers |
