Book description
"I know who your father is...Gestalt." A stunned Flinx hears
these dying words from one of the renegade eugenicists whose experiments
with humans twenty-odd years ago shocked the galaxy...and spawned Flinx.
So Flinx and his minidrag, Pip, venture to Gestalt, an out-of-the-way
planet that may supply the key to Flinx's shadowy past and strange
powers. Unfortunately for Flinx, Gestalt also hosts a resident bounty
hunter who's just learned about the stupendous reward offered for a
certain dead redhead. Flinx gets a chance to test his adversary's skills
when our hero's skimmer is blasted out of the sky and into a raging
river in the middle of nowhere - a nowhere of impassable terrain and
ravenous, carnivorous beasts.
Alan Dean Foster (1946 - )
Born in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After
receiving Bachelors and Master's degrees at UCLA, he spent two years as
a copywriter for a small Studio City, California PR firm. His writing
career began in 1968 when August Derleth bought a long Lovecraftian
letter of Foster's in 1968 and published it as a short story. More sales
of short fiction followed. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang
, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. Since then, Foster's
sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short
fiction has appeared in all major science fiction magazines and
anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. Five
collections of his short work have been published. Foster's work to date
includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror,
detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also
written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba
diving. He has also novelized Star Wars
movies as well as such well-known films as Alien
and its two sequels. Other works include scripts for talking records,
radio, computer games, and the story for the first Star Trek
movie. His work has won numerous awards. He and his wife, Jo Ann Oxley,
have traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. His other
pastimes include music, basketball, hiking, body surfing, scuba diving,
collecting animation on video, and karate weightlifting.
