The raw, rococo thoughts lay waiting to be tapped, just below the surface of realization. Warrant officer Ripley needed more self-control. Hopes and fears, speculations and half creations slipped haphazardly from compartment to compartment.
It was in the warehouse of the mind that her filing system went awry. She was very good at organizing stores and cargo, at pigeonholing carton A in storage chamber B or matching up manifests. But she lacked real inspiration and the powerful maturity of thought characteristic of the prodreamer. She had a little ingrained dream talent and more flexibility of imagination than her companions. Of them all, Ripley came closest to possessing that special potential. A subtle weaver of speculation, not straightforward and clumsy like you or I.
#ALAN DEAN FOSTER ALIEN PROFESSIONAL#
A professional dreamer is simultaneously the most organized of all artists and the most spontaneous. It requires the ability to regulate semiconscious creative impulses and to stratify imagination, an extraordinarily, difficult combination to achieve. Dreaming professionally, so that one's dreams can be recorded and played back for the entertainment of others, is a much more demanding proposition. Like the majority of us, these seven dreamt without effort or discipline. Professional dreamers are highly paid, respected, much sought-after talents. Whats a deity to do?From the Hardcover edition. But what with Arrawd being very beautiful, and Flinx being Flinx, this particular rule doesnt stand a chance.Now, Flinx is no stranger to murderous attacks and stalking assassinsevading them occupies most of his waking hoursbut to be besieged by hordes bent on worshipping him as a god? Worse still, escaping this fate is going to be as impossible as fulfilling his dire mission. As Flinx is the only one who has ever experienced mental contact with the machine, it is his job to find the powerful alien artifact and coax it into joining the battle against the behemoth from beyond.So Pip and Flinx valiantly sail into the unknown aboard their little spaceship, which is immediately forced down for emergency repairs on planet Arrawd, home to less advanced sentients and therefore off-limits to space travelers. Roaming the galaxy is a conscious planet-size weapons system, the legacy of a long-extinct race.
Something horrific that howls and writhes and rages across three hundred million light-years of spaceand is now heading straight for the Commonwealth and moving faster all the time.One slim chance exists to avert catastrophe, and only Flinx can take it. and a primordial horror intent on devouring all of it.In the outer depths of the universe lies the Great Emptiness, where something dreadful lurks, hidden behind a great gravitational lens of dark matter. From science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster comes a thrilling new Pip and Flinx adventure, wherein a certain red-haired, green-eyed young man blessed (or cursed) with strange powers finds himself and his mini-dragon sidekick on a top-secret mission concerning deep space, alien worlds.
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