The End of the Matter

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Accompanied by his faithful minidrag Pip and a most troublesome alien called Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for short -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.

There he hoped to find the giant man with the gold earring who somehow held the key to Flinx's mysterious past and to the strange powers he possessed. Chasing down his heritage was trouble enough, but Flinx didn't know what real trouble was until he realized that the Qwarm -- a deadly assassin squad -- were three steps behind him with a contract to kill.

But the minidrag's homeworld did not offer safety and Flinx had a terrible time just staying alive ... a matter complicated to no mean degree by a collapsar already set on an unstoppable death course across the galaxy!

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Body, Inc.

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New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. In Body, Inc., he creates a tomorrow where genetic manipulation has become ubiquitous, and the very meaning of what it is to be human is undergoing drastic transformation.
 
In a world deeply wounded by centuries of environmental damage, two unlikely souls join forces: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled into a mystery involving quantum-entangled nanoscale implants—a mystery that just may kill her. Whispr is a thief and murderer whose radical body modifications have left him so thin he is all but two-dimensional. Whispr has found a silver data-storage thread, a technology that will make him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. He is also going mad with longing for Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Their quest to learn the secrets of the implant and the thread—which may well be the same secret—has led them to the South African Economic Combine, otherwise known as SAEC. Or, less respectfully, SICK.  SICK, it seems, has the answers.

Unfortunately, SICK has also got Napun Molé, a cold-blooded assassin whose genetic enhancements make him the equivalent of a small army. Molé has already missed one chance to kill Ingrid and Whispr and now he has followed them to South Africa. This time, he is not only going to succeed, he is going to make them suffer.

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Flinx in Flux

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When Flinx, no stranger to galactic intrigue, found an unconscious woman on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin, he took it in stride. When he learned that the woman, Clarity Held, was a brilliant scientist abducted from a remote outpost on inhospitable Longtunnel by a group of fanatic assassins, he tried to help the beautiful Clarity back to her project. Unfortunately, the assassins were still at work. They would do anything to stop the research on Longtunnel and would kill anyone or anything that got in their way....
THE ADVENTURES OF FLINX OF THE COMMONWEALTH:
FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT
THE TAR-AIYM KRANG
ORPHAN STAR
THE END OF THE MATTER
BLOODHYPE
FLINX IN FLUX

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Resistance Front

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Kindle All-Stars Presents: Resistance Front features thirty-one short stories and five essays from the widest variety of authors available in literature. Famous authors Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster, best-selling Kindle authors Jon F. Merz and Bernard J. Schaffer, and authors from the US, UK, New Zealand, and Nepal all come together in this collection to assemble the Resistance Front.

ALL profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Thank you for supporting the cause, and enjoy.

About the Kindle All-Stars: In 2011, Bernard J. Schaffer began assembling the largest, most talented assortment of independent authors on the planet to create a project that would promote their work and contribute to one of the most worthy organizations in existence. Contributing Authors: Harlan Ellison, Alan Dean Foster, Jon F. Merz, William Vitka, Matt Posner, Simon John Cox, Angela McConnell, Robin Reed, Joshua Unruh, James Martin, Natasha Whearity, Mike Lewis, Dwaipayan Regmi, Keri Knutson, Douglas J. Lane, Miles Cressman, Richard Roberts, R.J. Astruc, Laurie Laliberte, AD Bloom, Toni Dwiggins, David Wisehart, J.J. Toner, David Hulegaard, Courtney Cantrell, Tony Healey, Alix Rendell, Joseph S. Walker, Frank Zubek, Victor Redman.

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Kindle All-Stars Presents: Resistance Front features thirty-one short stories and five essays from the widest variety of authors available in literature. Famous authors Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster, best-selling Kindle authors Jon F. Merz and Bernard J. Schaffer, and authors from the US, UK, New Zealand, and Nepal all come together in this collection to assemble the Resistance Front.

ALL profits from the sale of this book will be donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Thank you for supporting the cause, and enjoy.

About the Kindle All-Stars: In 2011, Bernard J. Schaffer began assembling the largest, most talented assortment of independent authors on the planet to create a project that would promote their work and contribute to one of the most worthy organizations in existence. Contributing Authors: Harlan Ellison, Alan Dean Foster, Jon F. Merz, William Vitka, Matt Posner, Simon John Cox, Angela McConnell, Robin Reed, Joshua Unruh, James Martin, Natasha Whearity, Mike Lewis, Dwaipayan Regmi, Keri Knutson, Douglas J. Lane, Miles Cressman, Richard Roberts, R.J. Astruc, Laurie Laliberte, AD Bloom, Toni Dwiggins, David Wisehart, J.J. Toner, David Hulegaard, Courtney Cantrell, Tony Healey, Alix Rendell, Joseph S. Walker, Frank Zubek, Victor Redman.

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Lost and Found: A Novel (Taken)

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Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunning originality has created an electrifying space epic set in a universe at once strangely familiar and starkly terrifying. Familiar because the universe is ours; terrifying because the human condition might soon be. . . .

Not so long ago Marcus Walker was just another young commodities trader in Chicago, working hard and playing harder. But that’s all in the past, part of a life half forgotten—a reality that vanished when he was attacked while camping and tossed aboard a starship bound for deep space.

Desperately, Walker searches for explanations, only to realize he’s trapped in a horrifying nightmare that is all too real. Instead of being a rich hotshot at the top of the food chain, Walker discovers he’s just another amusing novelty, part of a cargo of “cute” aliens from primitive planets—destined to be sold as pets to highly advanced populations in “civilized” regions of the galaxy.

Even if he weren’t constantly watched by his captors, Walker has few options. After all, there is no escape from a speeding starship. Another man might resign himself to the inevitable and hope to be sold to a kindly owner, but not Walker. This former college football star has plenty of American ingenuity and no intention of admitting defeat, now or ever. In fact, he’s only just begun to fight.

The adventure will continue with two more novels



From the Hardcover edition.

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The Tar-Aiym Krang

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Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.

Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers -- a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake Pip. With his odd talents, the pickings were easy enough so that Flinx did not have to be dishonest ... most of the time.

In fact, it hardly seemed dishonest at all to steal a starmap from a dead body that didn't really need it anymore. But Flinx wasn't quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the body was dead in the first place...

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