The End of the Matter

The End of the Matter

infobox Book |
name = The End of the Matter


author = Alan Dean Foster
country = United States
language = English
translator =
cover_artist =
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Del Rey Books
release_date = 1977
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages =
isbn = ISBN 0-345-29594-3
preceded_by = Orphan Star
followed_by = Flinx in Flux

"The End of the Matter" (1977) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is fourth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.

Plot introduction

The novel takes place immediately after "Orphan Star" with Flinx taking his new space ship, "Teacher" built by the Ulru-Ujurrians, to Alaspin, the home planet of his minidrag Pip, in search of the man who bid on him when Flinx was a child in a slave auction.

Plot summary

He not only finds this man, Skua September, but also acquires a strange new alien pet Abalamahalamatandra—Ab for short—and is pursued by an assassin squad called the Qwarm. Flinx’s friends Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex show up looking for Ab in the hope of finding an ancient weapon, thought to possibly be capable of stopping a rogue black hole; before the three inhabited planets on the black hole's course are sucked in.

External links

*isfdb title|id=3416|title=The End of the Matter
* [http://www.alandeanfoster.com/ Alan Dean Foster homepage]


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