title: Sliding Scales (A Pip & Flinx Adventure)
author:  Alan Dean Foster 
description: <b>Praise for Alan Dean Foster and <i>Reunion</i>, a Pip and Flinx adventure<br /><br /></b>Bestseller Foster has created yet another entertaining adventure story in the far-flung reaches of a far-future outer space. . . . Using the traditional cliff-hangers and narrow escapes of classic SF adventure page-turners, and propelling Flinx from one crisis to another, from moral dilemma to deus-ex-machina, Foster enlists multiple formulas for a surefire . . . reading experience that should appeal to space-opera fans.<br /><i>Publishers Weekly<br /><br /></i>Flinxs trek through the deadly desert and his encounters with the AAnn make for a good read.<br /><i>Locus</i><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  SLIDING  
  SCALES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ALAN DEAN FOSTER
  
  
  
  
  
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  BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Cover Page](Sliding_Scales_split_000.html#filepos630)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Title Page](Sliding_Scales_split_001.html#filepos721)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dedication](Sliding_Scales_split_003.html#filepos4211)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](Sliding_Scales_split_004.html#filepos4432)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](Sliding_Scales_split_005.html#filepos32164)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](Sliding_Scales_split_006.html#filepos73300)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](Sliding_Scales_split_007.html#filepos123177)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](Sliding_Scales_split_008.html#filepos150028)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](Sliding_Scales_split_009.html#filepos202665)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](Sliding_Scales_split_010.html#filepos240630)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](Sliding_Scales_split_011.html#filepos269354)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 9](Sliding_Scales_split_012.html#filepos310187)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 10](Sliding_Scales_split