Vandervort cautions Clarity about becoming too close to Flinx due to his unpredictable and possibly dangerous gene modifications.
Clarity discloses Flinx's special abilities to Vandervort. Eventually, the aliens lead them back to the Humanx settlement.Ĭlarity and Sowelmanu reunite with their fellow scientists, and Flinx discusses the ordeal with Alynasmolia Vandervort. They communicate with Flinx through complex descriptive emotions, allowing Flinx to hone his skills. The aliens turn out to be empathic like Flinx and identify themselves as the Sumacrea. In the darkness, Flinx detects a sentient creature in the blackness that feels nothing but peaceful intentions. Flinx trips after they take an unexpected slide to another level of the caves, and breaks their last light. In the tunnels, they meet an injured thranx, Sowelmanu, and help him recover enough to go with them. However, more explosions rock the facility, and they discover that the fanatics have collapsed the tunnels.įlinx and Clarity have no choice but to continue through the caves in hope of discovering a way out. Flinx and Clarity flee deeper into the cave with minimal supplies to wait out the attack. The fanatics have somehow found the facilities and are destroying everything in sight. During the discussion, an explosion rocks the facility. Flinx attempts to push Clarity away by confiding in her that the Meliorare Society has manipulated him. Clarity and Flinx begin to fall in love, but Flinx is not used to this kind of attachment. Clarity introduces Flinx to Alynasmolia Vandervort, the leader of the Coldstripe compound.įlinx stays to learn more about the operation. The caverns are home to a wide variety of flora and fauna that redefine the preconceived Humanx notions of evolution and possible lifeforms. All structures are contained in an extensive cavern system since the surface is inhospitable. They land on Longtunnel and Clarity begins showing Flinx around the facilities. On the voyage, their relationship becomes romantic. Flinx and Clarity escape and return to Alaspinport, where Flinx smuggles Clarity onto the Teacher, his personal ship in order to return her to Longtunnel. Later, while sleeping, people in chameleon suits attack them in the hotel. This sparks uncertainty in Flinx, due to his past of genetic alteration by the Meliorare Society. Fanatics attempting to stop the work kidnapped her. She explains that she is a gengineer working for Coldstripe on Longtunnel. He takes her to his hotel and she regains consciousness and reveals herself to be Clarity Held. He returns to town, but no one seems to know of a missing woman.
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Flinx discovers a woman, badly hurt, and with bruises that suggest interrogation of some sort. While returning to town, Flinx's empathic abilities detect someone hurt nearby. The minidrag became pregnant in The End of the Matter. Flinx has returned to the planet to release Pip's offspring into the wild. Lifeforms are being modified by gengineers, and they intend to stop the perversion of nature. The book opens upon a meeting of ecological fanatics plotting against operations on Longtunnel. He returns Clarity to her research station, only to encounter his old friends, the Ulru-Ujurrians, who help him psychically touch the threat that drove the ancient alien race, the Xunca, from the known universe. The woman, Clarity Held, turns out to be a research scientist last working on the inhospitable world of Longtunnel. The book is fifth chronologically in the Pip and Flinx series.įlinx finds a woman unconscious on a riverbank deep in the jungles of Alaspin where he has gone to release Pip's offspring. Flinx in Flux ( 1988) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster.