Wait a minute! Down with booze? What blasphemy was this? Sacrilege! And over a simple dream-dream?

The bell with it. Heading for brighter lights and a chaser, Porsupah broke into an uneven but rousingly risque Tolian ballad.

Behind him, the great ship lifted silently toward the stars.

Note: Map of the Commonwealth and its Chronology Published in 05: Flinx in Flux

ALAN DEAN FOSTER was born in New York City in 1946 and raised in Los Angeles, California.

After receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a master of fine arts degree in motion pictures from UCLA in 1968-69, he worked for two years as a public relations copywriter in Studio City, California.

He sold his first short story to August Derleth at Arkham Collector Magazine in 1968, and other sales of short fiction to other magazines followed. His first try at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was published by Ballantine Books in 1972. Since then, Foster has published many short stories, novels, and film novelizations.

Foster has toured extensively around the world. Besides traveling, he enjoys classical and rock music, old films, basketball, body surfing, and weightlifting. He has taught screenwriting, literature, and film history at UCLA and Los Angeles City College.

Currently he resides in Arizona.

By Alan Dean Foster :Published by Ballantine Books: The Icerigger Trilogy ICERIGGER.

MISSION TO MOULOKIN.

THE DELUGE DRIVERS.

The Adventures of Flinx of the Commonwealth FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT.

THE TAR-AIYM KRANG.

ORPHAN STAR.

THE END OF THE MATTER.

FLINX IN FLUX.

MID-FLINX.

BLOODHYPE.

THE HOWLING STONES.