Bloodhype

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Alan Dean Foster: Bloodhype (1979, New English Library)

206 pages

English language

Published Dec. 28, 1979 by New English Library.

ISBN:
978-0-450-04339-0
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OCLC Number:
16495354

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3 stars (1 review)

Bloodhype - more deadly than all of the other drugs in the universe combined, 100% addictive with death almost assured. The high it gives ensures the ignorant, stupid and daredevils in the universe will try it, and usually suffer the consequences for trying it. It's a big problem that cannot be ignored. As if that wasn't bad enough, we have a creature called a Vom who destroys entire civilizations and worlds who, with the help of certain intelligent lizards, has been woken up and set free from its self-made prison and is more than ready to once again wreck havoc on the universe. To combat it, we have two low grade Church officers, a ship's captain, a legendary alien guardian from an extinct race and a young, tall, redheaded male human who walks around with a deadly flying snake resting on his shoulder. Boring this adventure isn't.

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3 stars

Classic ADF, although for me, not as good as his Icerigger books set in this universe. I've only read one other Pip and Flinx book so it's really weird they just wander past in the background.

His writing of the female agent is, uh, not aging well. I forget her name but she's basically Barbarella.

Also having not read a cheap old paperback for a while, it's nice to see typos and misprints in a real book instead of just on the Kindle.

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  • Fiction in English