Orphan Star

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Orphan Star

First edition
Author	Alan Dean Foster
Cover artist	Darrell K. Sweet[1]
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Publication date	1977
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	240
ISBN	0-345-46104-5
OCLC	53936118
Preceded by	The Tar-Aiym Krang
Followed by	The End of the Matter

Orphan Star (1977) is a science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The book is Foster's eighteenth published book, his fifth original novel, and is chronologically the third entry in the Pip and Flinx series. Bloodhype (1973) was the second novel to include Pip and Flinx, but it is eleventh chronologically in the series and the two characters had a relatively small part in that novel's plot.