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There was no day or night within the planetoid. *** Anthony Villiers entered the casino in Star Well and looked about him with an elegant air of assurance that some might have taken for arrogance. This planetoid, Star Well, provides a rest in passage, warehouses, entertainment, comfort, games-everything, in short, but a sun, atmosphere, and close neighbors.

One exception: one rock is a regular port of call for ships that venture into the rift. However, there are rumors that a few are inhabited by men who prefer a cold and irregular existence to the certainties of warmer climates. No one has ever determined their number or charted their courses. The only features of the rift are a few pieces of random sky junk. Anyone dead that long is fortunate even to be known by a hole. Cutting into the edge of the Empire of Nashua is the Flammarion Rift, named after-never mind. There are places where the stars don’t grow. But by common reckoning, the year was 1461.ġ The universal soil is not uniformly fertile. To Moslems, it was late in the year 2882. New York, April 1968 To history buffs, the year was 4171 A.U.C. Villiers? If you consider it impolite to strike up an acquaintance with someone you have not been formally introduced to, well-consider the introduction made. And Anthony Villiers, gentleman par excellence, dashes through it all, buckling a swash or two, bungling a couple of others. What follows is a gallery of gamblers, duels and double-crosses, a minuet of manners and manners mangled the machinery of the universe is speculated upon inspector generals arrive to inspect it. He is the author of one fine and solidly classical sf novel,Rite of Passage he was the recipient of a “Hugo” award from the World Science Fiction Convention in 1967 for his critical writing over the previous year he recently published the first full-length study of Robert Heinlein,Heinlein in Dimension his short stories have appeared inAnalog,If,Fantasy & Science Fiction, andGalaxy. Panshin’s credentials for the undertaking are impressive. Looking for an analogue to thisroman fleuvein the mainstream, I come up withA Dance to the Music of Time, perhaps Men of Good Will, definitely NOTJalna.Twenty-eight-year-old Mr. I write this as the second volume of the adventures of Anthony Villiers nears completion. When the pith of that statement is bared as astutely as it is in this novel, it does not matter which “small community” you belong to:Star Wellhits.

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It is the first of a series of novels that examines the proposition that the world is composed of small communities of mutual interest. Delany Star Wellis a wise, delightful, and well-turned book and it is something I have never seen in science fiction before.

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Cover art copyright © 2002 by Cory and Catska Ench. All characters, events, organizations, and locales are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously to convey a sense of realism. ISBN: 1-93 and the ES design are trademarks of, Inc. NewCelebrations Star WellandThe Thurb RevolutionOriginal Copyright © 1968 by Alexei Panshin.Masque World Original Copyright © 1969 by Alexei Panshin.