- For Love of Mother-Not
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name = For Love of Mother-Not
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author =Alan Dean Foster
country =United States
language = English
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genre =Science fiction novel
publisher =Del Rey Books
release_date = 1983
media_type = Print (Paperback )
pages = 256 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-345-34689-0
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followed_by =The Tar-Aiym Krang "For Love of Mother-Not" (1983) is a
science fiction novel written byAlan Dean Foster . The book is the first chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series, though it was written fourth, as a prequel to help flesh out Flinx’s early history.Plot introduction
The story of
Flinx is begun in this novel, exploring his early years growing up with Mother Mastiff on the planet Moth. Young Philip Lynx is purchased in a slave auction by Mother Mastiff for one hundred credits. After years of raising the boy, whose full origins are unknown to his adoptive mother, she suddenly disappears. Flinx pursues her across the rainy world of Moth and discovers she has been kidnapped by the mysteriousMeliorare Society , a group known to have experimented witheugenics and might very well be the source of Flinx’s unusual talents.Flinx is gifted with empathic powers and able to project emotions and read the emotions of others. Mother Mastiff also realizes later on that it was not her desire to buy the boy but his desire to be bought that was intentionally pushed on to her by Flinx .
External links
* [http://www.alandeanfoster.com/ Alan Dean Foster homepage]
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