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Slipt Kindle Edition

by Alan Dean Foster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 132 ratings

Old Jake Pickett is a strange one.

He can turn bullets to dust or collapse skyscrapers with his mind. But all he really wants to do with his "magic" is entertain the poor kids who live, like him, near the chemical dump. Or talk telepathically with his crippled niece, Amanda.

Then a giant company decides that the only way to cover up their mess is to eliminate the people who have been affected, for better or worse, by the seeping industrial wastes.

Now Jake and Amanda are running for their lives. And ours.

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  1. Print length
    265 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Gateway
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  5. Publication date
    24 Jun. 2013
  6. File size
    454 KB
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About the Author

Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Star Wars: The Approaching Storm and the popular Pip & Flinx novels, as well as novelizations of several films, including Transformers, Star Wars, the first three Alien films, and Alien Nation. His novel Cyber Way won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction, the first science fiction work ever to do so. Foster and his wife, JoAnn Oxley, live in Prescott, Arizona.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00D8CY9T0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gateway
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 24 Jun. 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 454 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 265 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0575131842
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Best Sellers Rank: 1,278,357 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
  • Customer reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 132 ratings

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Alan Dean Foster

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Alan Dean Foster's work to date includes excursions into hard science-fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contemporary fiction. He has also written numerous non-fiction articles on film, science, and scuba diving, as well as having produced the novel versions of many films, including such well-known productions as "Star Wars", the first three "Alien" films, "Alien Nation", and "The Chronicles of Riddick". Other works include scripts for talking records, radio, computer games, and the story for the first "Star Trek" movie. His novel "Shadowkeep" was the first ever book adapation of an original computer game. In addition to publication in English his work has been translated into more than fifty languages and has won awards in Spain and Russia. His novel "Cyber Way" won the Southwest Book Award for Fiction in 1990, the first work of science-fiction ever to do so.

Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in all the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the Year" compendiums. His published oeuvre includes more than 100 books.

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  • AWT
    5.0 out of 5 stars good read and alost a collectors item for Alan Dean ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2015
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    A rare gem, good read and alost a collectors item for Alan Dean Foster who is the best well known SiFi writer who isnt well known.. everything for Star Treck episodes to Star Wars, Alien etc... Flinx books are brilliant as well..
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  • laurie
    4.0 out of 5 stars Split
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2021
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    Typical ADF, loved it, and couldn't put it down, lovely storyline with a great ending.
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  • RayD
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2022
    A real gripping read.
    Near forty years since it was written and beyond being a setting of that time, it's as great a read as when it was written.

    It's been a while since I read all the Alan Dean Foster that I could get hold of in paperback.

    So with a stack of 50+ unread ebooks queued on my tablet... l was sitting in a remote huge field on a pleasant summer day with a backdrop of the Welsh mountains, waiting for the wife to complete a pleasure ride. And one of my few remaining paperbacks seemed the thing to read. The next thing I know, I'm two thirds of the way through the book and there is a tired horse to hang on to. A peaceful afternoon in a sunny back garden the following day and the remains 100 pages flew by.

    Time to track down more of his books I have yet to read.
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  • scottieintx
    5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Genetic Mutation Thriller
    Reviewed in the United States on 15 June 2025
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    Toxic waste pollution has unexpected consequences for corporate executives who try to manipulate discoveries towards their own plans. Only an old man with heart problems stands in the way.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars very well written novel of great paranormal abilities welded by an old man with a heart condition.
    Reviewed in the United States on 8 May 2025
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    I have read this great novel several times since the late seventies. Evil corporate types trying to hide a huge chemical company’s illegal dumping in California. Jake Pickett, 72, has to fight off corporate thugs as they learn that the chemicals in the lethal soil around his longtime home have given him powers to “Slipt” things. He finds he can mentally disassemble bullets, guns, other things…His grand niece also has a special ability to connect to him mentally across the country…
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars It is a decent book
    Reviewed in the United States on 19 June 2025
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    While this'll never be one of my favorites, nor reread it, its a solid and enjoyable book. If he'd done a sequel to more fully explore the possibilities in the DNA & main character we see in the end of the book, I might have enjoyed it more.
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  • Nillspace
    5.0 out of 5 stars Jake and the princess win.
    Reviewed in the United States on 2 April 2025
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    What a neat story of a reluctant hero. Great writing with some true evil defeated by love. Deserved death and destruction rampant unleashed power that could not have Devine retribution in the conclusion. Careful selection for a bit more mature reader.
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  • readsalot
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is the 3rd or 4th time I've read this, first was in 1984
    Reviewed in the United States on 13 November 2024
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    Each reading just gets better. I've read a most of Alan Dean Foster's books this one is full of emotive force and meaning for me. Reinforcing my feelings for the power and lack of caring of big corporate entities, many bigger and more powerful than governments. I think of the charter of the British East India Company established in 1600 AD, profit became King and much much more....
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