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Record Number: 83860

...Who Needs Enemies?
by Alan Dean Foster
First Edition 1984
Del Rey / Ballantine Books
New York
ISBN 0345316576
Paperback
Cover illustration by Barclay Shaw
x+257 pages
Price: $2.95

Notes
A collection of short stories.

Includes:

Swamp Planet Christmas
Snake Eyes (a Pip & Flinx story)
Bystander
What Do the Simple Folk Do...?
Gift of a Useless Man
Surfeit (a Humanx Commonwealth story)
The Dark Light Girl
Instant With Loud Voices
Communication
The Last Run
Wu-Ling's Folly (an Amos Malone story)
Village of the Chosen

The image opposite and the blurb below are from the first printing of the Orbit 1984 paperback edition, ISBN 0708881696. Cover illustrator unknown.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
VISIONS OF COURAGE, TERROR, INNOCENCE AND DESIRE COME TO LIFE IN...

THE DARK LIGHT GIRL
—a flat tyre, an isolated village, a small motel.... When the man saw the girl glowing in the dark, he knew that something very strange was happening...

WU-LING’S FOLLY
—a stagecoach attacked, a strongbox full of gold stolen, a group of gold miners besieged. All in a day’s work for the Old West. But when the bandit is a dragon?

SWAMP PLANET CHRISTMAS
—threatened by planetary aborigines, the colony was in trouble until a little girl requested Christmas gifts through the wrong channels...

SNAKE EYES
—an enchanting Pip and Flinx mini-adventure.

AND EIGHT MORE TALES OF WONDER TO DELIGHT.

Also by Alan Dean Foster on the Orbit list:
THE I INSIDE
THE MAN WHO USED THE UNIVERSE
SPELLSINGER
THE HOUR OF THE GATE (Spellsinger 2)
THE DAY OF THE DISSONANCE (Spellsinger 3)
THE MOMENT OF THE MAGICIAN (Spellsinger 4)

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