For Love of Mother-Not
(Part of the Pip & Flinx (#5) Series, Humanx Commonwealth (#10) Series, and Humanx Commonwealth Chronological (#8) Series)
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Book Overview
He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers. For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip. Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual Talents.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0345305116
ISBN13:9780345305114
Release Date:February 1983
Publisher:Del Rey Books
Length:247 Pages
Weight:0.33 lbs.
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5 ratings
Still great
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Read this as a teen. It seems a little simpler than I remember, but it's still a great story. I believe the early Flinx novels (including this one) were very good. The more recent ones have become a little boring.
Superb prequel to a fine series
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Written years after his first Flinx book, Alan Dean Foster's "For Love Of Mother Not" shows an added maturity in writing style. Some of the briefly mentioned people and places from later Flinx books get a solid grounding in Planet Moth reality, and the narrative is effortless. My minor quibble is that someone must have used OCR (optical character recognition) to create the Kindle edition. At one point Flinx uses the equivalent of a phone booth, which Foster calls a com booth, but which Kindle shows as a "corn booth". Another time, someone takes "fond" off a shelf to eat. It makes you wonder just how many OCR-induced typos there are in here.
Very glad to see this book re-released
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is the first in the Pip series and in my opinion, the best. I'm very glad it's been re-released for another generation.
I love this universe
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I just love about 95% of books by this author. I finally decided to see if I could find the first book in probably his most popular series. Mother Mastif didn't know what stopped her on the way to her shop and drew her to a slave auction. Quite without meaning to she buys a boy named Flix who has some..rather interesting abilities. Then things get really interesting as the book goes on. My impression what I love most about this series, (other then the action and humor that drip from every page) are the names of the charecters. With names like Mother Mastif Flix Pip My personal favorite an ex-solider named Makes Peace you know that you are in for a treat. I know that this sounds quiche but this not typical science fiction. I don't give just any old science fiction a 5 star review it has to be really really good. But to Quote Lavar Buurton "Don't just take my word for it". Go out and get yourself a copy of this book.
As far as Flinx adventures go, this one is right on target.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
For Love Of Mother-Not is Flinx's first adventure (chronologically in Flinx's life). Foster goes back in time to Flinx's adoption by Mother Mastiff, his discovery of Pip, the explaination for the source of Flinx's Talent (a shadowy group of scientists monkeying around with human genes to create a "super-human"). As far as Flinx adventures go, this one is right on target. Mother-Not is also a useful history for those wanting to read the entire Flinx series.
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