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  BY ALAN DEAN FOSTER

  Published by The Random House Publishing Group

  The Black Hole

  Cachalot

  Dark Star

  The Metrognome and Other Stories

  Midworld

  Nor Crystal Tears

  Sentenced to Prism

  Splinter of the Mind’s Eye

  Star Trek® Logs One–Ten

  Voyage to the City of the Dead

  …Who Needs Enemies?

  With Friends Like These…

  Mad Amos

  The Howling Stones

  Parallelities

  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

  Bloodhype

  Flinx in Flux

  Mid-Flinx

  Flinx’s Folly

  Sliding Scales

  Running from the Diety

  Trouble Magnet

  THE DAMNED:

  Book One: A Call to Arms

  Book Two: The False Mirror

  Book Three: The Spoils of War

  THE FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH:

  Phylogenesis

  Dirge

  Diuturnity’s Dawn

  THE TAKEN TRILOGY:

  Lost and Found

  The Light-years Beneath My Feet

  The Candle of Distant Earth

  Trouble Magnet is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2006 by Thranx, Inc.

  All rights reserved.

  Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

  DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Foster, Alan Dean.

  Trouble magnet : a Pip & Flinx adventure / Alan Dean Foster.

  p. cm.

  1. Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization)—Fiction. 2. Pip (Fictitious character : Foster)—Fiction. 3. Flinx (Fictitious character)—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3556.O756T755 2006

  813'.54—dc22 2005056949

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  eISBN: 978-0-345-49552-5

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