Phylogenesis
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Author: Alan Dean Foster
Title: Phylogenesis
Series: The Founding the Commonwealth
Series No: 01 0f 03
Original copyright year: 1999
Genre: Science Fiction
Date of e-text: 05/09/2001
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By Alan Dean Foster : Published by Ballantine Books:
The Iceriggger 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
FLINX IN FLUX
MID-FLINX
BLOODHYPE
THE HOWLING STONES
The Damned
Book One: A CALL TO ARMS
Book Two: THE FALSE MIRROR
Book Three: THE SPOILS OF WAR
THE BLACK HOLE CACHALOT
DARK STAR THE METROGNOME and Other Stories
MIDWORLD NOR CRYSTALTEARS
SENTENCED TO PRISM SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE
STAR TREK@ LOGS ONE-TEN VOYAGE TO THE CITY OF THE DEAD
WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE . . . ... WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
MAD AMOS PARALLELITIES
PHYLOGENESIS DIRGE*
* forthcoming
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A Del Rey(r) Book Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group Copyright (c) 1999 by Thranx, Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Del Rey is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00-190318
ISBN 0-345-41861-1
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Hardcover Edition: June 1999
First Mass Market Edition: July 2000
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For Michael Goodwin and Robert Teague,
First citizens of the Commonwealth.
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PROLOGUE
Chapter One Chapter Two
Chapter Three Chapter Four
Chapter Five Chapter Six
Chapter Seven Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenteone Chapter Twentytwo
Appendix
Classification Of Planets
Galographics
The AAnn Empire:
The Blight:
The Humanx Commonwealth:
Commonwealth Chronology
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PROLOGUE
Things have a way of working out, if not always as planned. So it was with the Amalgamation that marked the establishment of the sociopolitical organization that came to be known as the Humanx Commonwealth. Contact having been established and maintained for some sixteen years, it was assumed by those advising both of the hesitant, uncertain species that procession to second-stage contact would take place within a predesignated time frame and would involve the implementation of carefully considered procedures, intricately designed programs, and closely scrutinized agendas.