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Mad Amos
''Mad Amos'' is a 1996 in literature, 1996 short story collection by the American speculative fiction author Alan Dean Foster. The stories (only two of which were previously unpublished) center on the character of ''Amos Malone'', a mountain man in the 19th century American Old West, American West. Mad Amos' knowledge of the occult and the fantastic brings him and his trusty but temperamental steed, the unicorn Worthless, into various adventures. Contents *"Wu-Ling's Folly" *"Ferrohippus" *"Witchen Woes" *"Jackalope" *"The Chrome Comanche" *"Agrarian Deform" *"Having Words" *"What You See . . ." *"Neither a Borrower Be . . ." *"The Purl of the Pacific" See also *Weird West *Jackalope References 1996 short story collections Books by Alan Dean Foster Fantasy short story collections Science fiction Westerns American short story collections {{1990s-fantasy-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996. Events *July 8 – Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', Mark Twain's ''Huckleberry Finn'' and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lindale, Texas, as they "conflict with the values of the community." *July 11 – As requested by Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the President's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. *October 3 – The first performance is held in New York of Eve Ensler's episodic feminist play ''The Vagina Monologues''. *''unknown dates'' **In the UK, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists goes to Helen Dunmore for '' A Spell of Winter''. **Peter O'Donnell publishes ''Cobra Trap'', a final volume featuring Modesty Blaise. The first appeared in 1965. **Margaret Mitchell's lost first novella, ''Lost Laysen'', is published, 80 years after it was written. **Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's ''Romance Writings'', including her nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |