Customer Reviews

For Love of Mother-Not (Pip & Flinx Series)

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

For Love Of Mother-Not is Flinx's first adventure (chronologically in Flinx's life). Foster goes back in time to Flinx's adoption by Mother Mastiff, his discovery of Pip, the explaination for the source of Flinx's Talent (a shadowy group of scientists monkeying around with human genes to create a "super-human"). As far as Flinx adventures go, this one is right on target. Mother-Not is also a useful history for those wanting to read the entire Flinx series.

I re-owned this book as a consequence of having to clean all my books out of my father's house and found myself again in possession of all the books I had hoarded as a pre-teen and teenager. I remembered liking this series a great deal and decided to see how it stood the test of time.

Surprisingly well, is the answer. Although _The Tar-Aiym Krang_ remains my favorite in the series, FLOMN is a nice portrait of the hero as a young boy. Particularly well-done is the way that he bonds with Pip and Mother Mastiff. More character than adventure, but that is not such a bad thing.

I will be holding on to this one.

I just love about 95% of books by this author. I finally decided to see if I could find the first book in probably his most popular series.

Mother Mastif didn't know what stopped her on the way to her shop and drew her to a slave auction. Quite without meaning to she buys a boy named Flix who has some..rather interesting abilities. Then things get really interesting as the book goes on.

My impression what I love most about this series, (other then the action and humor that drip from every page) are the names of the charecters.

With names like Mother Mastif
Flix
Pip
My personal favorite an ex-solider named Makes Peace you know that you are in for a treat.

I know that this sounds quiche but this not typical science fiction. I don't give just any old science fiction a 5 star review it has to be really really good. But to Quote Lavar Buurton "Don't just take my word for it". Go out and get yourself a copy of this book.

This is the first in the Pip series and in my opinion, the best. I'm very glad it's been re-released for another generation.

"For Love of Mother-Not" is the 1st adventure of Pip and Flinx in the Humanx universe. Alan Dean Foster goes back in time to tell the story of how Mother Mastiff and Flinx met, and also how Flinx first encounters his mini-dragon, Pip. We also get to see the emergence of Flinx's "Talent". The book takes place on Moth, the homeworld of Flinx and Mother Mastiff. Most of the story is about Flinx and Pip chasing down some shadowy characters who have kidnapped Mother Mastiff. We get to visualize some different areas of Moth, and some of the local wildlife. The book was an enjoyable and easy read. Onto the next adventure of Pip and Flinx.

Love this book, best in the series. The other books vary from very good (Mid-Flinx, The Tar-Aiym Krang) to not-so-great (Reunion-what was he thinking?) but this is the only one I keep coming back to. Delightful.

This book was a fine start, or continuation depending on if you read the books by publication date or chronologically, to the series. It started slow and at first I thought I was glad that I hadn't read this one first because I might not have read the rest of the series, but by the end of the book, that problem was gone. The only problem I had with this book had nothing to do with the story itself. The book had a few typos and what seems like an unusually large amount of extra and misused commas for no reason in many sentences on most pages. My biggest pet peeve with this book is, however, that it has no chapter demarcation. It would be so much nicer if this series had it, but as of yet, none of the books have had it. Thankfully, now the rest of the books in the series don't differ so that the chronological and publication orders are the same. I can't wait to read Flinx in Flux.

Stumbling across this title, I had no expectations. What I found was a very well written story with interesting characters. So interesting that I looked up the chronological sequence for this series and bought the next in line. I highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys well written science fiction stories.

Get the whole series of books in this set and experience a wonderous world of sci-fi as never before. GREAT!!!!

This is the first of the Pip and Flinx stories. Pip is an Alaspinian mini-dragon. Flinx is an orphan with interesting talents. Flinx is the unwitting target of both law enforcement and an underground outlaw group. Avoiding entrapment by either group is the gist of the story.

I have enjoyed the Pip and Flinx stories over the years and have carefully kept them for my grandson. I was delighted to find this first volume to set the scene for the later books.

Flinx and Pip have a relationship that is beyond the boy and his pet type. They are interdependent, more so than Flinx realizes. The story is the beginning of a coming of age saga. It is classic, old school scifi and I really liked it.

I recommend the book.