Product Description
Tanning to page edges,otherwise good, spine uncreased, light edgewear only.
A NEL PB reprint, 1983, cover art is uncredited but is in a John Foss style.
Foster's first published novel and introduced both his Humanx Commonwealth universe and his two most popular recurring characters, Pip and Philip Lynx ("Flinx"). The book is second chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.
The story follows Flinx, an orphan and a thief, as he loots a starmap from a dead body, that leads to a strange alien artifact on an abandoned world. This simple, chance adventure is the beginning of Flinx's quest to discover the identities of his parents and the source of his strange mental abilities.