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SBN 345-24366-8-150 First Printing: February, 1975
Printed in the United States of America Cover art by Gray Morrow
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CONTENTS


Theme and Prologue 1
At the Gate of the Garden of Death 5
The Trial 20
Anger of the Onseck, 32
The Old Broken Treasures in the Gap 40
The Quarrel at the Dinner Table 52
The Palace of the Governor of Night 57
The Eye upon the Sparrow 72
FOE Money, SAD Money 85
Traps, Fortunes and Watchers 109
The Nearby Exile 115
Hospitality and Entrapment 128
The High Sky Flying 136
Discourses and Recourses 155
The Road to the Catmaster 168
The Department Store of Hearts' Desires 186
Everybody's Fond of Money 204
Tostig Amaral 215
Birds, Far Underground 229
His Own Strange Altar 244
Counsels/ Councils, Consoles and Consuls 263
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 275

NORSTRILIA


THEME
AND PROLOGUE

Story, place, and time - these are the essentials.

1

The story is simple. There was a boy who bought the planet Earth. We know that, to our cost. It only happened once, and we have taken pains that it will never happen again. He came to Earth, got what he wanted, and got away alive, in a series of very remarkable adventures. That's the story.

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