Flinx Transcendent
First edition cover
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| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
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| Cover artist | Robert Hunt |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Del Rey Books |
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Publication date
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April 2009 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 398 |
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| OCLC | 251202934 |
| LC Class | PS3556.O756 F575 2009 |
| Preceded by | Patrimony |
Flinx Transcendent is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book is the fourteenth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series, and was released in April 2009. The novel is the final volume in the "Great Evil" story arc, but not the final Humanx Commonwealth novel, or even the final Flinx novel.
After his realization that civilization, both humanx and otherwise, is worth saving, Flinx sets out to find the ancient weapons platform built by the long extinct Tar-Aiym race to use against the Great Evil approaching the Commonwealth.
The novel is divided roughly into three sections. The first shows Flinx’s time spent on Blasusarr, the homeworld of the AAnn. The second deals with his reunion on New Riveira with Clarity Held and fighting off the Order of Null. The final part follows Flinx and his companions as they traverse known space looking for the ancient weapons system to fight off the Great Evil.
In yet another attempt to avoid his destiny Flinx set out to become the first human to live on the AAnn homeworld Blasusarr. Disguised in a simsuit to perfectly take on the appearance of a common AAnn, Flinx successfully lives on the desert planet until his cover story unravels. In his escape attempt he befriends a juvenile AAnn from a prominent family. He manages to parlay this friendship into an audience with an AAnn lord who has influence with the AAnn emperor. After being threatened with arrest and execution, Flinx convinces the lord the great danger both the AAnn empire and the Commonwealth are facing, by psychically projecting him into the mind of the approaching Great Evil.
After slipping into the center of the AAnn government and confronting the emperor who is determined to execute Flinx for his brashness and insult to the AAnn, but Flinx once again projects himself and nearly a hundred AAnn lords into the mind of the Great Evil. This not only kills some of the lords and drives other comatose, but convinces the emperor to release Flinx to fight off the evil. The emperor even goes so far as to order all AAnn aggression against Commonwealth systems to cease for a year so that Flinx can travel without worry outside the Commonwealth’s sphere of influence.
His decision made, Flinx travels to New Riveria to gather his companion Clarity Held before continuing on his search for the ancient Tar-Aiym weapons platform. After their somewhat rocky reunion, Clarity decides to accompany Flinx on his quest along with his old friends and mentors Truzenzuzex and Bran Tse-Mallory. Before the group can depart Nur, they are attacked by the Order of Null, who are still bent on killing Flinx to prevent his interference with the Great Evil, which they call the purity.
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