The Tar-Aiym Krang

The Tar-Aiym Krang

infobox Book |
name = The Tar-Aiym Krang


author = Alan Dean Foster
country = United States
language = English
translator =
cover_artist = Bob Eggleton
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Del Rey Books
release_date = 1972
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 251 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-345-30280-X
preceded_by = For Love of Mother-Not
followed_by = Orphan Star

"The Tar-Aiym Krang" (1972) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. It is Foster’s first published novel and started both his Humanx Commonwealth universe and his two most popular recurring characters, Pip and Philip Lynx ("Flinx"). The book is second chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.

The story follows Flinx, an orphan and a thief, as he steals a starmap from a dead body, that leads to a strange alien artifact on an abandoned world. This simple quest is the beginning of Flinx’s quest to discover the identities of his parents and the source of his strange mental abilities.

In popular culture

*The members of Pink and Brown and Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt formed a side project called Tar-Aiym Krang.

External links

*isfdb title|id=3413|title=The Tar-Aiym Krang
* [http://www.alandeanfoster.com/ Alan Dean Foster homepage]


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