The Tar-Aiym Krang
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
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| Cover artist | Bob Eggleton |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
| Released | 1972 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 251 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-345-30280-X |
| Preceded by | For Love of Mother-Not |
| Followed by | Orphan Star |
The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. It is Foster’s first published novel and started both his Humanx Commonwealth universe and his two most popular recurring characters, Pip and Philip Lynx ("Flinx"). The book is second chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.
The story follows Flinx, an orphan and a thief, as he steals a starmap from a dead body, that leads to a strange alien artifact on an abandoned world. This simple quest is the beginning of Flinx’s quest to discover the identities of his parents and the source of his strange mental abilities.
[edit] External links
- The Tar-Aiym Krang publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Alan Dean Foster homepage
| Foster's Humanx Commonwealth Novels |
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| 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 |
