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Forty-second Street,New York,New York ; 10036.
Manufactured in theUnited States of America
First Bluejay printing: February 1984
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Vinge, Joan D.
World's end.
I. Title.
PS3572.I53W6 1984 8i3'-54 83-21374
ISBN: 0-5709-312-04468-3
ISBN 0-312-94469-1 (limed.)
for jim,
my dearest friend and severest critic . . .
who made me follow this journey to its end.
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"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
"Nothing of him that cloth fade
But cloth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange."
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
"Shall I bring the prisoners to your office, Inspector?"
the voice from his desk speaker asked him.
And again, when he didn't answer, "Inspector
Gundhalinu?"