Humanx Commonwealth: Difference between revisions

The ''Humanx Commonwealth'' is the general name given to a series of novels and short stories written by [[Alan Dean Foster]] that is set in a common [[The Verse|science fiction universe]]. The setting was introduced in Foster's first published novel, ''The Tar-Aiym Krang'', and has been the star franchise of his decades-long writing career. It has heavy roots in [[Space Opera]] as well as [[Speculative Fiction]].

 

* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Played with. There's no grand destiny of the Universe that anyone knows of, but it ''just so happens'' that Flinx is the "lucky accident" that the Xunca were hoping would evolve to become the trigger for their ancient weapon against the [[Ultimate Evil|Great Evil]]. Once this is revealed, major forces dedicate themselves to the sole purpose of making sure Flinx fulfills this destiny, often over his strenuous objections.

* [[Bee People]]: Inverted in the thranx, which used to have an ant-like social structure, but re-evolved the capacity for all females to breed in the course of becoming sentient.

* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]: The thranx, though it is a subversion as they are humanity's closest ally in the setting. In the beginning each group had to overcome their mutual instinctive feelings of revulsion (and terrorist groups from both sides that utterly opposed the Amalgamation).

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Start counting the number of times one or more characters get rescued in this manner. You'll be at it a while.

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