Patrimony (27 page)

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

Star Wars
^®
: 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

Star Wars
^®
: The Approaching Storm

STORIES:

Impossible Places

Exceptions to Reality

THE ICERIGGER TRILOGY:

Icerigger

Mission to Moulokin

The Deluge Drivers

THE ADVENTURES OF FLINX OF THE COMMONWEALTH:

For Love of Mother-Not

The Tar-Aiym Krang

Orphan Star

The End of the Matter

Bloodhype

Flinx in Flux

Mid-Flinx

Reunion

Flinx’s Folly

Sliding Scales

Running from the Deity

Trouble Magnet

Patrimony

THE DAMNED:

Book One: A Call to Arms

Book Two: The False Mirror

Book Three: The Spoils of War

THE FOUNDING OF THE COMMONWEALTH:

Phylogenesis

Dirge

Diuturnity’s Dawn

THE TAKEN TRILOGY:

Lost and Found

The Light-years Beneath My Feet

The Candle of Distant Earth

Patrimony
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.

Copyright © 2007 by Thranx, Inc.

All rights reserved.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Foster, Alan Dean.

Patrimony: a Pip & Flinx adventure / Alan Dean Foster.

p. cm.

1. Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization)—Fiction. 2. Flinx (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Pip (Fictitious character: Foster)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3556.0756P38 2007

813'.54—dc22

2007021494

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eISBN: 978-0-345-50220-9

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