Mad Amos Malone

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Mad Amos Malone is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A Del Rey Ebook Original

Copyright © 2018 by Alan Dean Foster

“Wu-Ling’s Folly” copyright © 1982 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Fantasy Book.

“Witchen Woes” copyright © 1983 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Fantasy Book.

“Ferrohippus” copyright © 1984 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Fantasy Book.

“Jackalope” copyright © 1989 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“The Chrome Comanche” copyright © 1990 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“Agrarian Deform” copyright © 1991 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“Having Words” copyright © 1992 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“What You See…” copyright © 1992 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Grails.

“Neither a Borrower Be…” copyright © 1996 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Mad Amos.

“The Purl of the Pacific” copyright © 1996 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Mad Amos.

“Venting” copyright © 2006 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Slipstreams.

“Free Elections” copyright © 2010 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“Ghost Wind” copyright © 2011 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“Claim Blame” copyright © 2012 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

“Holy Jingle” copyright © 2015 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Dead Man’s Hand.

“A Treefold Problem” copyright © 2017 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Straight Outta Tombstone.

“A Mountain Man and a Cat Walk into a Bar…” copyright © 2017 by Alan Dean Foster; first appeared in Unidentified Funny Objects 6.

“Stuck” copyright © 2018 by Alan Dean Foster.

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