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Running from the Deity by Alan Dean Foster
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 three hundred 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? (From Amazon.com product listing.)
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