Humanx Commonwealth

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The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster. The Commonwealth takes its name from its two major sapient species, who jointly inhabit Commonwealth planets and administer both the political and religious/ethical aspects. They are the mammalian Humans of the planet Earth and the insectoid Thranx which dwell upon Hivehom. The Commonwealth is described as a progressive, well-intentioned liberal democracy spanning many star systems, and is somewhat similar to the United Federation of Planets from Star Trek.

Contents 1 Major species 2 Adaptations 3 Commonwealth novels 3.1 Novels featuring Flinx (aka Philip Lynx) 3.2 Icerigger trilogy 3.3 Founding of the Commonwealth 4 External links

[edit] Major species

• AAnn
• Human
• Quillp
• Thranx
• Tran
• Ulru-Ujurrians
• Vssey

[edit] Adaptations

In 1987 Steve Jackson Games published a Humanx sourcebook for their GURPS roleplaying game.

[edit] Commonwealth novels

• Nor Crystal Tears (1982)
• Voyage to the City of the Dead (1984)
• Midworld (1975)
• Orphan Star (1977)
• Drowning World (2003)
• The Howling Stones (1997)
• Sentenced to Prism (1985)
• Cachalot (1980)

[edit] Novels featuring Flinx (aka Philip Lynx)

• For Love of Mother-Not (1983)
• The Tar-Aiym Krang (1972)
• Orphan Star (1977)
• The End of the Matter (1977)
• Flinx in Flux (1988)
• Mid-Flinx (1995)
• Reunion (2001)
• Flinx's Folly (2003)
• Sliding Scales (2004)
• Running from the Deity (2005)
• Bloodhype (1973)
• Trouble Magnet (2006)
• Patrimony (2007)
• Flinx Transcendent (forthcoming 2009)

[edit] Icerigger trilogy

• Icerigger (1974)
• Mission to Moulokin (1979)
• The Deluge Drivers (1987)

[edit] Founding of the Commonwealth

• Phylogenesis (1999)
• Dirge (2000)
• Diuturnity's Dawn (2002)

[edit] External links

• Humanx Commonwealth series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Alan Dean Foster's official website
• List of Planets

v • d • e Foster's Humanx Commonwealth novels Stand alone novels Midworld · Cachalot · Nor Crystal Tears · Voyage to the City of the Dead · Sentenced to Prism · The Howling Stones · Drowning World Pip and Flinx For Love of Mother-Not · The Tar-Aiym Krang · Orphan Star · The End of the Matter · Flinx in Flux · Bloodhype · Mid-Flinx · Reunion · Flinx's Folly · Sliding Scales · Running from the Deity · Trouble Magnet · Patrimony · Flinx Transcendent Founding of the Commonwealth Phylogenesis · Dirge · Diuturnity's Dawn The Icerigger Trilogy Icerigger · Mission to Moulokin · The Deluge Drivers