Improbable duo Pip and Flinx return to correct another wrong within this all-new sci-fi adventure from one of the genre’s living legends.

Fans of fun, fast-paced, imaginative technology fiction experience, rejoice! #1 NY Times bestselling writer Alan Dean Foster profits to his much-loved Commonwealth series with a new novel starring the indefatigable Flinx and his venomous minidrag, Pip. Facing danger and doing good is usually their business . supplied the price can be right.

The unexpected come back of an about Strange Music: A Pip & Flinx Adventure old friend attracts Flinx and Pip to the backward globe of Largess, whose seal-like denizens’ primitive technology and fractious clan politics possess kept a wary Commonwealth from a rewarding trade relationship. But now a rogue individual employing forbidden advanced weaponry threatens to ignite a war among the Larians. And Flinx is merely the man to stop it before it begins.

But once on Largess, Flinx discovers that his empathic abilities-usually his greatest asset-are rendered useless from the natives’ exclusive language, which is definitely sung rather than spoken. Worse, the abduction of a powerful chieftain’s daughter offers raised tensions to the boiling stage. Now Flinx must depend by himself mettle-and obviously Pip, the dedicated minidrag using the dangerous edge-to right wrongs, mend fences, and battle a cold-blooded adversary equipped with plenty of firepower to blow all of them away . . . and damage the chance for peacefulness in Largess permanently.

Advance praise for Strange Music

“Adventure-loving readers not used to the series, aswell as outdated fans, will love [Alan Dean] Foster’s return to Commonwealth space.”-Publishers Weekly