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SIDESHOW
A Flinx and Pip story
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United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and
simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
"Sideshow," copyright (c) 2002 by Thranx, Inc.; appears for the first time in this volume.
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ISBN 0-345-45041-8
First Edition: September 2002
Many years ago, Judy-Lynn del Rey edited a sequence of original novelettes in a series called Stellar.
When she asked me for a Flinx Pip story to include, I was at something of a loss as to what to do, never
having utilized the characters in anything shorter than a novel. The result, "Snake Eyes," was a lot of fun.
Time passes, and Chris Schluep at Del Rey Books asks for another F P short to include in this
anthology. Once again I'm caught wondering what might be appropriate, and fun, when it occurs to me
that even the heroes of long-running series need a vacation once in a while. Flinx not having been home in
a long time (insofar as he has a home), I thought it was time he paid a visit to his old empathizing grounds.
Of course, this being Flinx, even a vacation back home couldn't possibly turn out to be as peaceful
and relaxing as he would hope it to be.
You never know what you'll see on a side street in Drallar.
From time to time, Flinx felt the pull of the only home he'd ever known. So, in the course of his
wanderings, he would return now and again to the winged planet of Moth, and to the simple dwelling still
occupied by the irascible old woman he, and everyone else, called Mother Mastiff.
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