As you may have already read one of my favorite books of all time is Voyage to the City of the Dead by Alan Dean Foster (see earlier review). The frequency with which you see books by Alan Dean Foster testifies to the joy I get in general from reading his work. I have avoided the Pip & Flynx series but will eventually probably succumb. Now that I’m done with the disclaimer/preamble I was disappointed by Quoform. It may have more to do with my general state of mind and the more limited time I have to read, but I really slogged through the book. I found my self skipping several nights in between readings and coming back and really not caring about the plight of the characters. The book from the start seemed to be geared towards a series rather than a novel, and the characters seemed to sense this also. The Commonwealth has discovered a planet, that seems to periodically disappear, we’ll call this mystery number one. Mystery number two the planet (or the small portion explored by the scientists) is teeming with varied intelligent species, not to mention the immense varied multitutes of other creatures. Mystery number three the planet seems to have a hollow core filled with strange machinery whose purpose can’t easily be divined. Mystery number four the science space ship disappears when leaving the planet and appears to have been shifted to some far far distant part of the galaxy that is comletely unrecognizable to the navigational computer. Number of solutions to these mysteries provided with in the novel ….Zero.  I literally finished this book about a week ago and have completely blocked out the ending of the novel and the fate of the main two characters. I’ll probably read the sequel when it eventually comes out just to see if Foster salvages the characters and the plot.