Alan Dean Foster - Commonwealth 21 - Flinx - Sideshow

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A Flinx and Pip story

United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and

simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Del Rey is a registered trademark and the Del Rev colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

www.delreydigital.com

ISBN 0-345-45041-8

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: September 2002

Many years ago, Judy-Lynn del Rey edited a sequence of original novelettes in a series called Stellar.

When she asked me for a Flinx Pip story to include, I was at something of a loss as to what to do, never

having utilized the characters in anything shorter than a novel. The result, "Snake Eyes," was a lot of fun.

Time passes, and Chris Schluep at Del Rey Books asks for another F P short to include in this

anthology. Once again I'm caught wondering what might be appropriate, and fun, when it occurs to me

that even the heroes of long-running series need a vacation once in a while. Flinx not having been home in

a long time (insofar as he has a home), I thought it was time he paid a visit to his old empathizing grounds.

Of course, this being Flinx, even a vacation back home couldn't possibly turn out to be as peaceful

and relaxing as he would hope it to be.

You never know what you'll see on a side street in Drallar.

From time to time, Flinx felt the pull of the only home he'd ever known. So, in the course of his

wanderings, he would return now and again to the winged planet of Moth, and to the simple dwelling still

occupied by the irascible old woman he, and everyone else, called Mother Mastiff.

It was good to roam the backstreets and alleys of the hodgepodge of a city, taking in sights both new

and familiar; inhaling the amalgamating aromas of a hundred worlds; observing the free-floating, arguing,

laughing, chattering farrago of humans, thranx, and other citizens of the Commonwealth. Here he had no

responsibilities. Here his only concern was relaxation. Here he could mix freely without constantly having

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