- Bloodhype
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name = Bloodhype
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author =Alan Dean Foster
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Science fiction novel
publisher =Ballantine
release_date = 1973
media_type = Print (Paperback )
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isbn = ISBN 0-345-33285-7
preceded_by =Running from the Deity
followed_by =Trouble Magnet "Bloodhype" (1973) is a
science fiction novel written byAlan Dean Foster . The book is eleventh chronologically in the Pip andFlinx series, though it was written second, and it is an oddity for the characters since they only appear in the last third of the book. Foster originally started the novel as a stand-alone work, but was encouraged by his publishers to include the characters from his previous novel.Fact|date=February 2007The novel takes its title from a deadly and addictive drug, for which there is no known antidote, which causes instant addiction followed by a long, slow, painful death unless the user continues to take increasingly greater doses. The main action follows a pair of investigators tracking down the manufacturer of the illegal substance. Events conspire to bring in Pip and Flinx along with an alien intelligence so powerful that it devours all life on the planets it attacks.
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* [http://www.alandeanfoster.com/ Alan Dean Foster homepage]
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