The Tar-Aiym Krang

The Tar-Aiym Krang by Alan Dean Foster


Publisher: Ballantine Books; First printing (March 1972)#: 02547-4-095
ISBN-10: 0345025474ISBN-13 9780345025470
Paperback: 252 pagesItem Weight: 4.8 ounces
4/2 x 7 inches

"The last vestige of the last culture of TAR-AIYM, the long-dead planet, was Krang. It magnetized the adventurous, the curious...and the greedy. And killed them all. Or turned them into its living-dead slaves". Part of The Adventures of Flinx of the Commonwealth series. -----------------------
This is the second book (in chronological events) in the "Pip & Flinx" series. Other books in the series include: For Love of Mother-Not (1983); Orphan Star (1977); The End of the Matter (1977); Flinx in Flux (1988); Mid-Flinx (1995); Reunion (2001); Flinx's Folly (2003); Sliding Scales (2004); Running from the Deity (2005); Bloodhype (1973); Trouble Magnet (2006); Patrimony (2007); Flinx -------------------------
Moth was a beautiful planet, the only one with wings -- two great golden clouds suspended in space around it.@@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 provided a comfortable income for certain quick-witted fellows like Flinx and his pet flying snake 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 wasn't quite smart enough. He should have wondered why the body was dead in the first place...