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He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual Talents.
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Read all the books in the Pip & Flinx series For Love of Mother-Not The Tar-Aiym Krang Orphan Star Paperback or eBook Paperback or eBook Paperback or eBook End of the Matter Flinx in Flux Mid-Flinx eBook eBook Paperback or eBook Reunion Flinxʼs Folly Sliding Scales Paperback or eBook Paperback or eBook Paperback or eBook Running from the Deity Bloodhype Trouble Magnet Paperback or eBook eBook Paperback or eBook Patrimony Flinx Transcendent Paperback or eBook Hardcover or eBook fost_0345346890_4p_01_r2.qxp 5/31/07 1:52 PM By Alan Dean Foster Published by The Random House Publishing Group The Black Hole Cachalot Dark Star The Metrognome and Other Stories Midworld Nor Crystal Tears Sentenced to Prism Splinter of the Mind’s Eye Star Trek® Logs One–Ten Voyage to the City of the Dead . . . Who Needs Enemies? With Friends Like These . . . Mad Amos The Howling Stones Parallelities Impossible Places Drowning World : Icerigger Mission to Moulokin The Deluge Drivers : For Love of Mother-Not Mid-Flinx The Tar-Aiym Krang Reunion Orphan Star Flinx’s Folly The End of the Matter Sliding Scales Bloodhype Running from the Deity Flinx in Flux Trouble Magnet : Book One: A Call to Arms Book Two: The False Mirror Book Three: The Spoils of War : Phylogenesis Dirge Diuturnity’s Dawn : Lost and Found The Light-years Beneath My Feet The Candle of Distant Earth Page ii Fost_0345346890_3p_all_r1.qxd 7/19/04 14:15 Page iii FOR LOVE OF MOTHER-NOT A Pip & Flinx Novel ALAN DEAN FOSTER D BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK fost_0345346890_4p_01_r2.qxp 5/31/07 1:52 PM Page iv Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is coverless, it may have been reported to the publisher as “unsold or destroyed” and neither the author nor the publisher may have received payment for it. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. A Del Rey® Book Published by The Random House Publishing Group Copyright © 1983 by Alan Dean Foster Excerpt from Sliding Scales by Alan Dean Foster copyright © 2004 by Alan Dean Foster All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. DEL REY is a registered trademark and the Del Rey colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-345-34689-6 Printed in the United States of America www.delreybooks.com OPM 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 First Edition: March 1983 Fost_0345346890_3p_all_r1.qxd 7/19/04 14:15 Page v For Michael and Audrey and Alexa Whelan; good neighbors . . . Fost_0345346890_3p_all_r1.qxd 7/19/04 14:15 Page 1 1 “N