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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
1. State of the Art
2. The Other Side of Planck’s Wall
3. A Cosmos Down the Street
Author’s Note
4. An Ilel Plays Her Pipe
5. The Malvau/N’Rasia Subplot
6. The Feast of the Two Moons
7. A Midnight Visitor
8. The Port Opens Up
9. Another Visitor
Author’s Note
10. Ranora’s Plot
11. The Feast of the Three Moons
12. A Happy Ending for Everyone?
Author’s Note
13. Ranora Leaps Over the Wall
15. The Feast of the Four Moons
Author’s Note
Novels by Andrew M. Greeley
About the Author
Copyright
Permission to quote from the following is gratefully acknowledged:
“Author’s Note,” from No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain, edited by John Tuckey and Robert Hirst, copyright © 1983 by The Regents of The University of California. Reprinted by permission from The University of California Press.
Mantissa by John Fowles, published by Little, Brown and Company.
Copyright © 1982 by J. R. Fowles.
The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide. Copyright 1927 and renewed 1955 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley, published by Harper & Row Publishers Inc. Copyright 1928 by Aldous Huxley. Copyright renewed 1956 by Aldous Huxley.
At Swim—Two Birds by Flann O’Brien, copyright © Brian Nolan 1951, 1966. Reprinted by permission of Brandt & Brandt Literary Agents, Inc.
Published in association with Tor Books.
Copyright © 1986 by Andrew M. Greeley
All rights reserved.
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First Printing: June 1986
Map by Heidi Hornaday
Cover painting by Boris Vallejo
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eISBN 9781250237378
First eBook edition: December 2018