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Running from the Deity

A Pip & Flinx Adventure

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Running from the Deity

By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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From science-fiction legend Alan Dean Foster comes a thrilling new Pip and Flinx adventure, wherein a certain red-haired, green-eyed young man blessed (or cursed) with strange powers finds himself and his mini-dragon sidekick on a top-secret mission concerning deep space, alien worlds...and a primordial horror intent on devouring all of it.

In the outer depths of the universe lies the Great Emptiness, where something dreadful lurks, hidden behind a great gravitational lens of dark matter. Something horrific that howls and writhes and rages across 300 million light-years of space - and is now heading straight for the Commonwealth and moving faster all the time.

One slim chance exists to avert catastrophe, and only Flinx can take it. Roaming the galaxy is a conscious planet-size weapons system, the legacy of a long-extinct race. As Flinx is the only one who has ever experienced mental contact with the machine, it is his job to find the powerful alien artifact and coax it into joining the battle against the behemoth from beyond.

So Pip and Flinx valiantly sail into the unknown aboard their little spaceship, which is immediately forced down for emergency repairs on planet Arrawd, home to less advanced sentients and therefore off-limits to space travelers. But what with Arrawd being very beautiful, and Flinx being Flinx, this particular rule doesn't stand a chance.

Now, Flinx is no stranger to murderous attacks and stalking assassins - evading them occupies most of his waking hours - but to be besieged by hordes bent on worshipping him as a god? Worse still, escaping this fate is going to be as impossible as fulfilling his dire mission. What's a deity to do?

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Engaging Storytelling • Captivating Characters • Wonderful Prose • Decent Story • Excellent Adventure • Complex Hero
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Another protracted sideshow story artificially constituted on top of a very thin basic plot. Better than Bloodhype and Sliding Scales. Not impressed.

Not Impressed

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Flinx and Pip are my favorite novels. I have read or listened to them multiple times. My favorite part is when Flinx is all excited to explore and thinks his interacting is safe. Seeing new places and meeting alians sounds awesome even though some are terrifying.

Running for Flinx

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I love this series. Great story arc. Alan Dean Foster is awesome. On to the next.

Continuity of the story

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good stand alone story, does not require prior books, but of course it helps. Further delve into the internal thinking of Flinx

Side adventure of the main theme

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I've really enjoyed the Pip and Flinx series, but this book seemed to be more of a side story away from the main theme that the other books have been leading us along. I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as the others, and was impatient for it to end or come back to the series story line of the last few books. Maybe it is just me, but this is NOT my favorite book of the series.

a side story

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I love Alan Dean Foster's writing style. Its hard to go wrong with his stories.

another winner

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perfect, well written, wonderful series and I love this narrator. He puts perfect emotions and thought into his narration of all books he narrates.

wonderful and great narrator

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Once again, with the best of intentions, Flinx sets out to help, and ends up learning some hard lessons along the way. Enjoy!

Excellent!

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Although this was the next in reading order of the overall series, it didn’t really add much to the overall story about the great evil coming from the void. It was still a decent story, but I was hoping it would have a little more to do with the main theme of the series.

Great narrator! Decent story.

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Alan Dean is a master storyteller. Every book he writes fills the imagination, and creates characters that stay with you long after the read is over. It’s so wonderful that he has written over 200 books because I’ll never get tired of reading his outstanding prose.

Excellent adventure

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