New Releases by Alan Dean Foster

Could even the remarkable Flinx stop the deadly drug that was sweeping the galaxy? It caused instant addiction, followed by an excruciating slow death, and there was no known antidote. It was a killer. Supposedly the drug had been totally eradicated from the humanx galaxy years before. At least that''s what everyone thought. But somehow, mysteriously, that dreadful substance was back in circulation on Repler and threatening to wreak havoc throughout the known galaxy. Someone somewhere was secretly manufacturing Bloodhype, but nobody seemed to know where or who!

Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimed Humanx universe, where a young human orphan called Flinx seeks to unlock the dangerous secrets of his past–and the uncertain prospects of his future with the aid of the formidable minidrag known as Pip. This mind-bending Pip and Flinx adventure is a roller-coaster ride into the unknown, filled with wonder and humor, and a host of deadly adversaries. Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renegade eugenicists whose experiments with human beings had horrified the civilized universe more than twenty years ago. After all, as one of the few Meliorare experiments to survive, Flinx has a right to know about his past. Especially since his telepathic powers seem to be evolving. The question is, evolving into what? The excruciating headaches afflicting Flinx with increasing frequency make him wonder if he will be alive to find out. . . .

When Flinx, no stranger to galactic intrigue, found an unconscious woman on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin, he took it in stride. When he learned that the woman, Clarity Held, was a brilliant scientist abducted from a remote outpost on inhospitable Longtunnel by a group of fanatic assassins, he tried to help the beautiful Clarity back to her project. Unfortunately, the assassins were still at work. They would do anything to stop the research on Longtunnel and would kill anyone or anything that got in their way....

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.

Pip and Flinx meet Midworld! Where Flinx and his flying minidrag Pip went, trouble always followed—that law had governed their lives through years of unsought danger and galactic intrigue. Now an evil rich man was out to kidnap the minidrag for his personal zoo, and Flinx and Pip were on the run again—this time into uncharted space, on a random course they hoped would foil their pursuers. They found more than they bargained for when they landed on Midworld, a verdant planet covered by an immense jungle, hosting an incredible variety of plant and animal life—all of it unknown and all of it deadly. And now they were in real trouble. Their hiding place was in danger of discovery, and their only hope lay with this bizarre and untamed planet . . . if it didn''t kill them first!

A Jedi adventure that is a direct prequel to the upcoming movie, Star Wars: Episode II. Based on an idea by George Lucas, featuring a never-before-seen character from the new movie, and written by Star Wars veteran Alan Dean Foster. At the start of the upcoming Star Wars movie, Episode II, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are fresh off a mission on another world. This is the story of that mission. Obi-Wan and his Padawan, Anakin, are dispatched to the world of Ansion to deal with border disputes, as the Supreme Chancellor struggles desperately to hold his dying Republic together.

All 3 books in the Humanx Commonwealth trilogy -- Phylogenesis, Dirge, and Diuturnity''s Dawn -- in one volume.

"New York Times" bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his acclaimedHumanx universe, home of a young human orphan called Flinx and the formidableminidrag known as Pip.

SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER . . . these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Celebrate Star Trek''s thirtieth anniversary with the original mission logs chronicling some of the crew''s most bizarre missions and strangest encounters with alien races across the galaxy . . . where no man has gone before. BEM It seems like a simple request. The Pandronians have petitioned to send a representative to observe a Federation crew carrying out a survey mission. So Commander Ari bn Bem joins Captain Kirk to evaluate aboriginal life forms of undetermined intelligence and accomplishments on planet Delta Theta Three. There, the trouble begins with an omniscient entity. Then disaster summons Bem to his home planet, with the Enterprise ordered to assist him in every way. The shocking theft of a priceless treasure threatens to reduce Pandronian civilization to anarchy--and bring the crew of the Enterprise to the brink of disaster. SLAVER WEAPON A billion years ago Slavers ruled the galaxy, but all that remains of their once awesome empire is concentrated in extraordinary cubes known as stasis boxes. Now the Enterprise must transport a stasis box containing the ultimate weapon, a war computer/handgun with settings that fire nuclear explosions. But the Kzin--violent, ferocious, catlike creatures--crave the weapon that will make the galaxy a smorgasbord for their insatiable appetites. With ruthless cunning they lure the unsuspecting starship to an icy planet, where a cataclysmic fate awaits them--and the universe.

When a strange warship appears on a distant alien world, bearing only a single human being and his bee-like extraterrestrial companion, the powerful warlord of that world laughs at the stranger''s demand--end war with an interstellar rival or face the consequences. But James Lawson, emissary from the intergalactic federation of advanced races, means every word he says.

Here, from prolific SF and fantasy master Alan Dean Foster, is the long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling Spellsinger series. Rather than become a spellsinger like his father Jon-Tom, teenage Buncan decides to do his own thing, and puts together a band that features rap music. Ultimately it is Buncan and his band who possess the power to battle the sinister Grand Veritable.

Now, at last, all three exciting books in the STAR TREK series are together in one volume. Here are nine thrilling adventures that star Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of U.S.S. Enterprise!

For eons, the Amplitur had searched space for intelligent species, each of which was joyously welcomed to take part in the fulfillment of the Amplitur Purpose. Whether it wanted to or not. When the Amplitur and their allies stumbled upon the races called the Weave, the Purpose seemed poised for a great leap forward. But the Weave''s surprising unity also gave it the ability to fight the Amplitur and their cause. And fight it did -- for thousands of years. Will Dulac was a New Orleans composer who thought the tiny reef off Belize would be the perfect spot to drop anchor and finish his latest symphony in solitude. What he found instead was a group of alien visitors -- a scouting party for the Weave, looking. for allies among what they believed to be a uniquely warlike race: Humans. Will tried to convince the aliens that Man was fundamentally peaceful, for he understood that Human involvement would destroy the race. But all too soon, it didn''t matter. The Amplitur had discovered Earth... First Time in Paperback

Ripley crashes down onto a prison planet and must battle the Alien once more before it destroys the whole world

Vacationing FBI agent Joshua Oak is caught up in a hazardous plot to prevent the evil of another reality from entering the earth through the tribal colonies of Africa

Log of the Starship Enterprise Stardates 5525.3-5526.2 inclusive, James T. Kirk, Capt., USSC, FS, ret. Commanding, transcribed by Alan Dean Foster at the Galactic Historical Archives on S. Monicus I stardate 6111.3 for the curator: JLR.

Cachalot - landless ocean planet, long ago reserved by man as a refuge for the great sea-creatures they had hunted near to extinction. Scattered humans lived peacefully in floating townships, until one day something rose from the deep destroying all in its path.--Goodreads.com.

The crew of a commercial spaceship makes an unscheduled landing on a barren and desolate planet. They encounter a pulsating organism that attaches itself to one of the crew members and reproduces within his body to become the deadly alien.