Humanx Commonwealth
The Humanx Commonwealth is a fictional interstellar ethical/political entity featured in the science fiction novels of Alan Dean Foster.[1][2] 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.
Major species
- AAnn
- Human
- Quillp
- Thranx
- Tran
- Ulru-Ujurrians
- Vssey
Adaptations
In 1987 Steve Jackson Games published a Humanx sourcebook for their GURPS roleplaying game.
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)
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)
Icerigger trilogy
Founding of the Commonwealth
References
- ^ Commonwealth Map alandeanfoster.com
- ^ Phylogenesis: Book One of The Founding of the Commonwealth Alan Dean Foster