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The End of the Matter

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The End of the Matter
AuthorAlan Dean Foster
Cover artistDarrell K. Sweet[1]
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDel Rey Books
Publication date
1977
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (paperback)
ISBN0-345-29594-3
Preceded byOrphan Star 
Followed byFlinx in Flux 

The End of the Matter (1977) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book is fourth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.

Plot summary

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The novel takes place immediately after Orphan Star with Flinx taking his new space ship, the Teacher, built by the Ulru-Ujurrians, to Alaspin, the home planet of his minidrag Pip, in search of the man who bid on him when Flinx was a child in a slave auction.

He not only finds this man, Skua September, but also acquires a strange new alien pet, Abalamahalamatandra (Ab for short), and is pursued by an assassin squad called the Qwarm. Flinx's friends Bran Tse-Mallory and Truzenzuzex show up looking for Ab in the hope of finding an ancient weapon, thought to possibly be capable of stopping a rogue black hole, before the three inhabited planets on the black hole's course are sucked in.

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