#Alan dean foster books flinx in flux series#

It is FosterвЂ™s first published novel and describes the journey of Flinx, an orphan and a thief, as he steals a starmap from a dead body that leads to a strange alien artifact on the abandoned word and the galactic alliance between the humans and an insectlike race called Thranx.

#Alan dean foster books flinx in flux series#

The second in the series is the book- вЂњThe Tar Aiym KrangвЂќ. The gripping journey of the characters leave the readers in the awe of the authorвЂ™s imagination for transforming an almost surreal dream into an imaginative reality. With an uncontrollable and erratic empathic ability Flinx as a character, along with his closest companion- a minidragon who he names Pip, takes the readers through a journey that tends to leave its imprints deep into the readersвЂ™ mind. Mother Mastiff did a bundle of scams and Flinx followed her footsteps.

Flinx was as normal and deposited in a slaver market where he was adopted by Mother Mastiff and was thereafter raised on the lowerDrallar on the planet Moth. Flinx was raised as an experiment by the group known as Meliorare Society, who relocated him from time to time, moving him from place to place in order to avoid authorities who used to deterengineers and reclaim the children. Born to aprostitute Rud Anasage Lynx in Allahabad, India, it was observed that Flinx had unusalactivity in his brain at birth which indicated a potential for supernaturaltalent. Flinx is an empathetic young man who finds himself amidst a series of events on which the survival of the entire Galaxy depends upon. For Love of Mother Not- is the first book chronologically in the series,though is was written fourth, to describe FlinxвЂ™s early history.

For Alan Dean Foster the masterstroke came with his creation of the character Philip Lynx ( Flinx ) in the вЂњHumanx CommonwealthвЂќ. It is said that it takes just one masterstroke for the world to know of the genius it beholds. Such has been the impact that along with various other awards such as the Ignotus Award in Spain in 1994 and the Stannik Award in 2000 in Russia, he has also won the 2008 Grand Master Award from the Association of Media Tie-in Writers.

Sales of the magazines followed, AlanвЂ™s career took off and then there was no turning back for the man who was to challenge and redefine his readerвЂ™s imagination in a way that it left them wanting for more. His career began when August Derleth bought AlanвЂ™s letter and published it in his bi-annual magazine- The Arkham Collector. He is best known for his work in the series вЂњHumanx Commonwealth UniverseвЂќ, вЂњIceriggerвЂќ and his prolific abilitiy of novelization. This can be seen in his books where you are most likely to meet new creatures or end up trudging the terrain of a new planet. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife JoAnn Oxley and loves to travel, explore new places and meet new people. in Political Science from UCLA in 1968 and got his Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1969.

He was born in New York City but was raised mainly in California. Star Wars A New Hope: The LIfe of Luke SkywalkerДЄlan Dean Foster is an American author of fantasy and science fiction novels, who has to his credit a long list of hit novels. Star Wars Episode #04: A New Hope Novelization