Series
Pip & Flinx
Alan Dean Foster · 15 novels · 1 novelette · 2 short stories · 1972–2017
The Pip & Flinx novels follow Flinx, a young man with an unusual, mysterious origin, and his ever-present animal companion Pip, across Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth setting. Beginning with The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) — chronologically the second entry, since Foster later filled in Flinx's earlier life — the series grew to fifteen novels published between 1972 and 2017, mixing planetary adventure with a slowly unfolding personal mystery.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Pip & Flinx at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s5
- 1980s2
- 1990s1
- 2000s9
- 2010s1
Shape
15 novels · 1 novelette · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book17 of 18 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The End of the Matterdarkest · most intense
- Trouble Magnetbrightest · calmest