The End of the Matter

The End of the Matter

Author	Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist	Darrell K. Sweet[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	1977
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	0-345-29594-3
Preceded by	Orphan Star
Followed by	Flinx in Flux

The End of the Matter (1977) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book is fourth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.

Plot introduction[]

The novel takes place immediately after Orphan Star with Flinx taking his new space ship, Teacher built by the Ulru-Ujurrians, to Alaspin, the home planet of his minidrag Pip, in search of the man who bid on him when Flinx was a child in a slave auction.

Plot summary[]

He not only finds this man, Skua September, but also acquires a strange new alien pet Abalamahalamatandra—Ab for short—and is pursued by an assassin squad called the Qwarm. Flinx’s friends Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex show up looking for Ab in the hope of finding an ancient weapon, thought to possibly be capable of stopping a rogue black hole; before the three inhabited planets on the black hole's course are sucked in.

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References[]

External links[]

• The End of the Matter title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Alan Dean Foster homepage

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