Running from the Deity - Alan Dean Foster

From science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster comes a thrilling Pip and Flinx
adventure, wherein a certain red-haired, green-eyed young man blessed (or cursed)
with strange powers finds himself and his mini-dragon sidekick on a top-secret mission
concerning deep space, alien worlds . . . and a primordial horror intent on devouring
all of it.

In the outer depths of the universe lies the Great Emptiness, where
something dreadful lurks, hidden behind a great gravitational lens of dark matter.
Something horrific that howls and writhes and rages across three hundred million
light-years of space-and is now heading straight for the Commonwealth and moving
faster all the time.

One slim chance exists to avert catastrophe, and only Flinx
can take it. Roaming the galaxy is a conscious planet-size weapons system, the legacy
of a long-extinct race. As Flinx is the only one who has ever experienced mental
contact with the machine, it is his job to find the powerful alien artifact and coax
it into joining the battle against the behemoth from beyond.

So Pip and Flinx valiantly
sail into the unknown aboard their little spaceship, which is immediately forced
down for emergency repairs on planet Arrawd, home to less advanced sentients and
therefore off-limits to space travelers. But what with Arrawd being very beautiful,
and Flinx being Flinx, this particular rule doesn't stand a chance.

Now, Flinx is
no stranger to murderous attacks and stalking assassins-evading them occupies most
of his waking hours-but to be besieged by hordes bent on worshipping him as a god?
Worse still, escaping this fate is going to be as impossible as fulfilling his dire
mission. What's a deity to do?