The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 12 books · 1972 to 1995

Alan Dean Foster

FantasyScience fictionComic fantasySpace opera

Alan Dean Foster writes adventure science fiction and comic fantasy. In Spellsinger, a student guitarist finds his music works magic in a world of talking animals; his Humanx Commonwealth books follow the young empath Flinx and his flying snake Pip.

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Alan Dean Foster books in order

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Spellsinger

6 books · Set in invented worldsComic fantasy
  1. 1Spellsinger1983With Jon-Tom MeriweatherBuy on Amazon
  2. 2The Hour of the Gate1984With Jon-Tom MeriweatherBuy on Amazon
  3. 3The Day of the Dissonance1984With Jon-Tom MeriweatherBuy on Amazon
  4. 4The Moment of the Magician1984With Jon-Tom MeriweatherBuy on Amazon
  5. 5The Paths of the Perambulator1985With Jon-Tom MeriweatherBuy on Amazon
  6. 6The Time of the Transference1986With Jon-Tom MeriweatherBuy on Amazon

Pip and Flinx

6 books · Set in invented worldsSpace opera
  1. 1The Tar-Aiym Krang1972With FlinxBuy on Amazon
  2. 2Orphan Star1977With FlinxBuy on Amazon
  3. 3The End of the Matter1977With FlinxBuy on Amazon
  4. 4For Love of Mother-Not1983With FlinxBuy on Amazon
  5. 5Flinx in Flux1988With FlinxBuy on Amazon
  6. 6Mid-Flinx1995With FlinxBuy on Amazon

Characters

6 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Spellsinger

The Humanx Commonwealth