The Tar-Aiym Krang (Pip & Flinx, #1)

By David M. Schwartz

Book Overview

With two great golden clouds suspended around it, Moth was the only planet that appeared to have wings. It was a beautiful planet . . . and a trap for the unwary. Here was a wide-open world for any venture a man might scheme. The planet attracted unwary travelers, hardened space-sailors, and merchant buccaneers--a teeming, constantly shifting horde that provideda comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet mini-dragon, Pip. With his odd talents, the pickings were easy enough so that Flinx did not have to be dishonest . . . most of the time. In fact, it hardly seemed dishonest at all to steal a starmap from a dead body that didn't really need it anymore. But Flinx forgot one crucial point. He should have wondered why the body was dead in the first place. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034530280X
• Release Date: March 1972
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.7" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

The Alien Device

The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972) is the first SF novel in the Flinx series. It is also the first novel about the Humanx Commonwealth and Church founded by the Amalgamation of humans and the insectoid thranx. And it introduces their adversaries, the reptilian AAnn. In this novel, Philip Lynx is an orphan in Drallar on Moth. He was fairly normal as a poor street kid, but he was also highly intelligent and avidly curious about many...

Tar-Aiym Krang

The book that started it all. It is a must have, if you plan on reading Mid-Flinx and Reunion, A Pip and Flinx Novel. I might add that Alan Dean Foster's Midworld should also be enjoyed prior to reading Mid-Flinx. In all four books, Alan paints a tapestry full of vivid characters, larger than life environments and surprise endings. I highly recommend them!

Space Opera at its best!

This one's an old favorite of mine, but I must say I like this new cover much better than mine! Flinx is an orphan living in the slums of the planet Drallar with his venomous, flying minidrag, Pip. Flinx yearns to find out his heritage and the orgin of his strange mental powers. He stumbles across a map leading to a strange alien artifact on an abandoned world and is swept up in a grand adventure. Foster's Humanx Commonwealth...

The begining of a great series

Meet Phillip Linx known to his friends as Flix,an orphan sold at the Drallar slave markets, taken in by a kind local Mother Mastive. Thus starts one of the most memorable sagas that I have read, Fosters charecterization brings to vibrant life the players in the marveously evolving galaxy of the Commonwealth. I would thoroughly recommend this book as a spring board into the wonderously convoluted world of Flix of the Commonwealth...