Running from the Deity: A Pip & Flinx Adventure (Adventures of Pip & Flinx)

by Alan Dean Foster

Book Overview

From science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster comes a thrilling Pip and Flinx adventure, wherein a certain red-haired, green-eyed young man blessed (or cursed) with strange powers finds himself and his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345461614
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 0.8" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Divine Healing

Running From the Deity (2005) is the eleventh SF novel in the Pip & Flinx series, following Sliding Scales. In the previous volume, Takuuna was taken to the AAnn Administration Center for treatment. A Vssey named Qyl-Elussab cared for him in the ambulance. Takuuna didn't recall the name until it was too late. The Tier of Ssaiinn nye commiserate with Flinx for his loss. Then Flinx departs the planet to return to Teacher. He resumes his search for the Tar-Aiym weapons platform. In this novel, Philip Lynx is a biotechnically mutated human. Flinx has the intermittent ability to read emotions and occasionally to project them. He lives in a world of mental noise and has frequent headaches. Pip is an Alaspinian minidrag. Her species are natural empaths. They are also very dangerous pets, at least to those who attack them or their kin. Ebbanai is a Dwarra. He is a lowly net-caster, but he does own his property and animals. He is compassionate and tolerant. Storra is also a Dwarra. She is Ebbanai's wife and weaves seashan into cloth. She is more intelligent that her husband and more avaricious. In this story, Flinx cuts through Commonwealth space toward the Blight. The Tar-Aiym weapons platform was last seen heading in this direction. After entering the Blight, however, Teacher informs him that the ship needs some repairs. Flinx considers returning to Commonwealth space, but dislikes that course due to various enemies searching for him in the Commonwealth. Then Teacher suggests a nearby world within the Blight. Unfortunately, the planet is inhabited. According to the records, the inhabitants of Arrawd are have early industrial technology. Contact with such primitives is banned. So the Teacher will have to set down somewhere isolated and hide itself. Unluckily, Teacher is spotted by Ebbanai as it descends. At first, the native thinks that a fourth moon is falling on him. Then he sees the odd shape and navigation lights. He is not certain what it is, but he conceals himself among the dunes as it sets down. Then Teacher becomes one dune among many. Ebbanai is rather startled, but he isn't about to go touch the dune to determine if the odd object is inside. He sneaks off and runs home. Fortunately, he remembers to take his net with him. When Storra first hears the story, she believes Ebbanai to be drunk. Then she tears his story to pieces, citing the impossibility of it all. Finally, she goes with Ebbanai to see the dune. On the way, they discover Flinx sitting on the ground with a sprained ankle. He had been testing his skills in the lower gravity and found a flaw in his thinking. At least he had not broken anything when he stepped into the hole. Flinx is enough to convince Storra that some of Ebbanai's story is true. They help Flinx hobble to their house, where he applies a healing ointment on the sprain. The injury seems to heal before their eyes. This tale leads Flinx to apply his healing devices to Ebbanai.

Pip and Flinx

Whenever I read a Pip and Flinx book, I have such fun I hope A.D. Foster had half of much fun writing it. If you're looking for something profound, find something else. This is escapism and just plain enjoyable. Claudene

ADF does it again!

Mr. Foster has a great style in writing which is both accessible to the new reader and entertaining for the veteran. In this latest installment we were not disappointed. The story takes Pip and Flinx on another side road from the main "save the universe" stroyline. The Aann are a race which brook no humor or mery, or is this truly the case. Every group (race) has their rebels. Flinx discovers what (cultural) rebels do in the context of the Aann race. I found this to be a refreshing study of one of the major racial players in the ADF universe. The disappointment was small in this installment: I wished we had seen more of the action we saw in the Tar-Aiym Krang (arguably the best of the series). However, there is plenty of intrigue and excitement to go around. It will be great to see Pip & Flinx meet back up with Bran Tse Mallory and Truzenzuzex...

Pip & Flinx live on

A good diversion but now on to the main story please.

The Gods Must Be Crazy in outer space

Philip "Flinx" Lynx is the result of illegal eugenic experiments that simply proved science needs boundaries as he contains enhanced skills to propel and collect emotions from others. Currently Flinx searches for a missing super-weapon left behind by an extinct race that may prove the only tool to stop a species that threatens mankind from behind the Great Emptiness. However, though the weapon is planet sized Flinx has failed to find it and is forced to land on an uncharted orb when his intelligent spaceship, Teacher, needs emergency repairs. Flinx meets a backwater race of aliens who like him can emit and receive emotions. He breaks the prime directive of the Commonwealth not to interfere with primitive species especially using technology as Flinx heals the sick and injured. That backfires when the natives begin worshipping Flinx the God which infuriates religious and political leaders. His reputation as the deity crosses national boundaries; other countries prepare to invade to bring God home. While Teacher makes self-repairs, Flinx realizes why the prime directive exists while RUNNING FROM THE DEITY, which happens to be him. RUNNING FROM THE DEITY, the latest FLINX'S FOLLY is a terrific tale that satirizes classic Star Trek by displaying what happens when a much more advances civilization brings impossible to grasp technology to more primitive societies. Flinx is in rare form trying to do good until he realizes what he has wrought while local leaders do what they always do; manipulate others including the "Deity". Though some readers will be upset that the original mission turns inert, this is an interesting tale as fans will think of The Gods Must Be Crazy in outer space. Harriet Klausner