Alan Dean Foster has written a number of excellent stand-alone science fiction novels. Trilogies are good for sales volume, but they also invite padding. This is the last novel of the Tipping Point trilogy and it feels like the conclusion to a padded series. Ingrid Seastrom fills the pages with daring from pointless adventures, repeatedly escaping death in improbable ways, only to reach an anti-climactic ending. My sense was that Foster strung together a series of 5,000 word adventures until he hit his word count goal and then quit. I would only recommend this to fans of adventure/quest fiction who aren’t concerned about characterization or credibility.