Paul Collins writes:He did still have some visitors to break up his loneliness, though. His old friend John Stewart was in the city for a while, and - how time was changing him! Strange to think of all that had passed since their days together in London, reading the day's papers and philosophizin...
Dwight Thomas and David K. Jackson (G. K. Hall & Co., 1987).Clearly a labor of love, this chronological montage of letters, journal entries, and newspaper clippings models itself to great effect after Jay Leyda’s The Melville Log (1951). Although necessarily selective, this documentary approa...
She was planting a shaped explosive device directly above an energy conduit that snaked through the city, from which every home, office and governmental department drew power. The device was not powerful enough to kill anyone, but would send a laser spike into the conduit, slicing through it like...
She didn't know what to expect as she arrived at the Hall of the Initiates. Here a duty clerk peered owl-like over her thick glasses and mumbled, ‘Another initiate, eh? Name? Sponsor? Former address? Come along, girl, don't just stand there witless. I'm busy, as well you might be if you'd gather ...
Her name was Catherine Lyon, and she had been some blocks north on a stretch of Greenwich Street that cold and snowy night. “Being in Greenwich Street, at the pump near the door of the new Furnace, I saw Gulielma Sands a little after eight o’clock,” she testified. Lyon had been helping up “a lame...
They paused at the very spot where Fa’red’s deadmoon warriors had viewed the capital. Jelindel and Zimak dismounted and marvelled at the view of the city from a stone wall beside the road. Daretor remained on his horse. ‘I never dreamed there could be such a wonderful city,’ said Zimak. Jelindel ...
Well, they should have been unlucky: thirteen men apiece at thirteen tables, all seated themselves for a dinner at Mills Hotel on February 13, at 7:13 sharp in the evening. A flag with the original thirteen states hung above them, and as they dined upon a thirteen-course meal that cost them thirt...
She knew the so-called ‘Archmage’ Jelindel dek Mediesar, and was not impressed that she had sought an audience. Onala hadn’t forgotten her first meeting with Jelindel when she was a mere neophyte. Jelindel had ensnared her with a binding word and humiliated her in front of her fellow seniors. Ona...
They picked up cargoes and passengers outside the normal shipping schedules, and by the time they were back in home waters again they had every prospect of landing in D’loom with a large and mostly honest profit. Altimak was their first port of call in Skelt territory, and they were pleasantly su...
They were still clumsy. The renovator had assured him they would eventually synchronise with his nerve impulses. Till then, he had to wear special gloves. It would not do to let people know his distinctive identifying mark. He was now back to his usual darkly handsome self. Pity about the renovat...
The world spun, sickeningly. One moment the dark river was beneath her, then the next the faintly glowing atmospheric shield, then the garish cityscape, pulsing with light and life.And Anneke had scant time to save her own. She couldn’t survive a fall from this height, even into water. She would ...
THE HIGH ROLLER WHEN THE DELIVERYMAN SHAMBLED unannounced into the district attorney’s office on Centre Street, it wasn’t to drop off a package. I’m going to tell you everything, Herman Nack told the astounded prosecutor. Assistant DA Ed Mitchell hastily sent for a stenographer as he guided the g...
Inside, Daretor sat hunched beside the luggage while Jelindel and Zimak sat opposite. It irked Daretor that Jelindel had taken the seat next to Zimak and was so companionable with him. He knew he was being foolish, but he could not rid himself of an old unease. Ever since he and Zimak had been fo...