Dedication
FOR BETSY MITCHELL,
with whom I went through a darned
lot of words together. With thanks,
friendship, and appreciation.
By Alan Dean Foster
Relic
For Love of Mother-Not
The Tar-Aiym Krang
Orphan Star
The End of the Matter
Flinx in Flux
Mid-Flinx
Reunion
Flinx’s Folly
Sliding Scales
Running from the Deity
Bloodhype
Trouble Magnet
Patrimony
Flinx Transcendent
Strange Music
Phylogenesis
Dirge
Diuturnity’s Dawn
Icerigger
Mission to Moulokin
The Deluge Drivers
Nor Crystal Tears
Voyage to the City of the Dead
Midworld
Drowning World
Quofum
The Howling Stones
Sentenced to Prism
Cachalot
A Call to Arms
The False Mirror
The Spoils of War
Lost and Found
The Light-Years Beneath My Feet
The Candle of Distant Earth
The Human Blend
Body, Inc.
The Sum of Her Parts
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALAN DEAN FOSTER has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films, including Transformers, Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and the most recent one, Alien: Covenant. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona, in a house built of brick that was salvaged from an early-twentieth-century miners’ brothel. He is currently at work on several new novels and media projects.
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Copyright
Relic is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2018 by Alan Dean Foster
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
DEL REY and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Foster, Alan Dean.
Title: Relic / Alan Dean Foster.
Description: First edition. | New York : Del Rey, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018009535 | ISBN 9781101967638 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781101967645 (ebook)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure. | GSAFD: Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3556.O756 R38 2018 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/2018009535
Ebook ISBN 9781101967645
Title page image: © iStockphoto.com
Book design by Dana Leigh Blanchette, adapted for ebook
Cover design: Cletus Adams
Cover illustration: © Jeremy Wilson
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