Foster, Alan Dean - Commonwealth 13 - Flinx 03 - Orphan Star (v1.0 txt)

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Foster, Alan Dean - Commonwealth 13 - Flinx 03 - Orphan Star (v1.0)

By Alan Dean Foster : Published by Ballantine Books:
The Icenggger Trilogy
ICERIGGER
MISSION TO MOULOKIN
THE DELUGE DRIVERS
The Adventures of Flinx of the Commonwealth
FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT
THE TAR-AIYM KRANG
ORPHAN STAR
THE END OF THE MATTER
FLINX IN FLUX
MID-FLINX
BLOODHYPE
THE HOWLING STONES
The Damned
Book One: A CALL TO ARMS
Book Two: THE FALSE MIRROR
Book Three: THE SPOILS OF WAR
THE BLACK HOLE
CACHALOT
DARK STAR
THE METROGNOME and Other Stories
MIDWORLD
NOR CRYSTALTEARS
SENTENCED TO PRISM
SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE
STAR TREK@ LOGS ONE-TEN
VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE . . .
... WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
MAD AMOS
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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright a 1977 by Alan Dean Foster
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random
House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-30376
ISBN 0-345-31001-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition: March 1977
Seventh Printing: October 1983
First Canadian Printing: April 1977
Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet
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For Joe and Sherry Hirschhorn, and their
Three Princesses,
Renee, Bonnie, and Janice,
Who would grace any fairy tale,
With love from Alan. . .
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Chapter One

"Watch where you're going, qwot,""
The merchant glared down at the slim, olive-skinned youth and made a show
of readjusting his barely rumpled clothing.
"Your pardon, noble sir," the youngster replied politely. "I did not see you in
the press of the crowd." This was at once truth and lie. Flinx hadn't seen the
overbearing entrepreneur, but he had sensed the man's belligerence seconds
before the latter had swerved intentionally to cause the collision.
Although his still poorly understood talents had been immensely enriched
several months ago by his encounter with the Krang-that awesome semisentient
weapon of the now-vanished masters of the galaxy, the Tar-Aiym-they were as