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AND ALL THE STARS A STAGE

BY

JAMES BLISH

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A some-what abridged version of this novel first appeared in AMAZING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, Vol. 34, Nos. 6 and 7, June
and July 1960; that version Copyright @ 1960 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company.

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Copyright,@ 1971 by James Blish. Published by arrangement with Doubleday and Company, Inc. library of Congress Catalog Card
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 To Robert and Barbara Silverberg







It had all begun, Jorn Birn thought dispiritedly, with the exploding star.
The thought did not cheer him much. It is a hard thing to have to blame
one's troubles upon an event which took place three hundred years ago,
particularly when one's troubles are present, immediate, and full of
nagging little details which seem to have nothing to do with history at
all-let alone with so remote a subject as astronomy.
Take for example the present instance. Given, to begin with, a young
bachelor sitting alone in his government-allotted room in an all-male
"residence concIave"-the government's totally transparent euphemism for a
barracks or dormitory, combining only the grimmer features of each. Given,