Reading order · 6 books · 1972 to 1995 · Set in invented worlds
Pip and Flinx Books in Order
The Pip and Flinx books follow a red-haired orphan with empathic powers and his pet minidrag, a small flying snake with poisonous spit, through Foster’s Humanx Commonwealth, a future galaxy shared by humans and the insect-like thranx.
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Series facts
- Books
- 6
- Published
- 1972 to 1995
- First book
- The Tar-Aiym Krang
- Latest
- Mid-Flinx (1995)
- Setting
- Set in invented worlds
The reading order
Every Pip and Flinx book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
6 books · Set in invented worlds
- 1The Tar-Aiym Krang1972With FlinxFlinx, a young thief and street performer with his flying minidrag Pip, gets caught up with a pair of scholars searching for an ancient alien weapon of enormous power, the Krang.Buy on Amazon
- 2Orphan Star1977With FlinxFlinx, raised in the marketplace of Drallar, sets out with his flying mini-dragon Pip to learn the truth about his birth and his strange mental powers, while a powerful man tries to kill him.Buy on Amazon
- 3The End of the Matter1977With FlinxFlinx and Pip travel to Alaspin, Pip’s home world, in search of a man who may hold the key to Flinx’s past, pursued by deadly assassins.Buy on Amazon
- 4For Love of Mother-Not1983With FlinxYoung Flinx and his adoptive mother, Mother Mastiff, are living in the city of Drallar when she is kidnapped.Buy on Amazon
- 5Flinx in Flux1988With FlinxFlinx rescues Clarity Held, a scientist kidnapped by fanatical assassins, and helps her return to her research while the killers keep coming.Buy on Amazon
- 6Mid-Flinx1995With FlinxA wealthy collector wants Pip for his private zoo, and Flinx and Pip flee to Midworld, a jungle planet full of unknown and deadly life.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
The books can be read in publication order, though For Love of Mother-Not, published later, tells how Flinx first met Pip and works well read first.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Flinx | Pip | Mother Mastiff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 The Tar-Aiym Krang | LLead | MMajor | |
| 2 Orphan Star | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor |
| 3 The End of the Matter | LLead | MMajor | |
| 4 For Love of Mother-Not | LLead | MMajor | MMajor |
| 5 Flinx in Flux | LLead | MMajor | |
| 6 Mid-Flinx | LLead | MMajor |
Characters in the Pip and Flinx books
3 characters from Alan Dean Foster’s chart, with the number of Pip and Flinx books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| FlinxOrphan with empathic powers | 6 | The Tar-Aiym Krang 1972 |
| PipFlinx's minidrag | 6 | The Tar-Aiym Krang 1972 |
| Mother MastiffFlinx's adoptive mother | 2 | Orphan Star 1977 |