Orphan Star

Orphan Star
First edition
Author	Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist	Darrell K. Sweet^[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	1977
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	240
ISBN	0-345-46104-5
OCLC	53936118
Preceded by	The Tar-Aiym Krang
Followed by	The End of the Matter

Orphan Star (1977) is a science fiction novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book is Foster's eighteenth published book, his fifth original novel, and is chronologically the third entry in the Pip and Flinx series. Bloodhype (1973) was the second novel to include Pip and Flinx, but it is eleventh chronologically in the series and the two characters had a relatively small part in that novel's plot.

Plot summary

The novel takes place in 550 A.A. (After Amalgamation in Foster’s timeline, 2950 AD). Flinx, no longer a poor orphan, is chasing a merchant to Hivehom and Terra in search of information about his parentage. Along the way Flinx is joined by Sylzenzuzex, a female Thranx member of the Commonwealth Church. His chase leads him to Ulru-Ujurr, a planet under Edict from the United Church, ostensibly because it contains a highly intelligent telepathic race. It is on Ulru-Ujurr that he discovers the mystery of his parentage and begins the childlike Ulru-Ujurrians on their "Game of Civilization".

References

↑ isfdb

External links

Orphan Star title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Alan Dean Foster homepage

Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels

Stand alone novels	Midworld Cachalot Nor Crystal Tears Voyage to the City of the Dead Sentenced to Prism The Howling Stones Drowning World Quofum

Pip and Flinx	For Love of Mother-Not The Tar-Aiym Krang Orphan Star The End of the Matter Flinx in Flux Mid-Flinx Reunion Flinx's Folly Sliding Scales Running from the Deity Bloodhype Trouble Magnet Patrimony Flinx Transcendent

Founding of the Commonwealth	Phylogenesis Dirge Diuturnity's Dawn

The Icerigger Trilogy	Icerigger Mission to Moulokin The Deluge Drivers

The Humanx Commonwealth

Races	AAnn Human Hur'rikku Minidragon Tar-Aiym Thranx Ulru-Ujurrians

Planets	Annubis Blasusarr Cachalot Midworld Terra Ulru-Ujurr

Characters	Flinx Bran Tse-Mallory Truzenzuzex Mahnahmi Lynx Clarity Held

Other	Bloodhype Meliorare Society Order of Null Qwarm

List	List of Humanx Commonwealth characters List of Humanx Commonwealth planets List of Humanx Commonwealth races

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