For Love of Mother-Not

For Love of Mother-Not  
Author(s) Alan Dean Foster
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Del Rey Books
Publication date 1983
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 256 pp
ISBN 0-345-34689-0
OCLC Number 44853088
Followed by The Tar-Aiym Krang

For Love of Mother-Not (1983) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is the first chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series, though it was written fourth, as a prequel to help flesh out Flinx’s early history.

Plot introduction

The story of Flinx is begun in this novel, exploring his early years growing up with Mother Mastiff on the planet Moth. Young Philip Lynx is purchased in a slave auction by Mother Mastiff for one hundred credits. After years of raising the boy, whose full origins are unknown to his adoptive mother, she suddenly disappears. Flinx pursues her across the rainy world of Moth and discovers she has been kidnapped by the mysterious Meliorare Society, a group known to have experimented with eugenics and might very well be the source of Flinx’s unusual talents.

Flinx is gifted with empathic powers and able to project emotions and read the emotions of others. Mother Mastiff also realizes later on that it was not her desire to buy the boy but his desire to be bought that was intentionally pushed on to her by Flinx .

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