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First published in Great Britain by Faber & Faber Ltd 1971
Arrow edition 1978
(D James Blish 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965,
1966,1967,1968,1971

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TO
HARRY HARRISON
a good companion
 Contents

A Style in Treason (1967) 13
The Writing of the Rat (1956)51
And Some Were Savages (1960) 67
A Dusk of Idols (1961) 94
None so Blind (1962) 122
No Jokes on Mars (1965) 128
How Beautiful with Banners (1966)138
Skysign (1968) 151
Acknowledgements 185
 A Style in Treason

CHAPTER ONE

The Karas, a fragile transship-she was really little more than a ferry, just
barely meriting a name-came fluttering out of the interstitium. into the
Flos Campi system a day late in a ball of rainbows, trailing behind her two
gaudy contrails of false photons, like a moth unable to free herself of her
cocoon. The ship's calendar said it was Joni 23, 5914, which was probably
wrong by at least ten years; however, nobody but a scholar of that style of
dating could have been precise about the matter.; the Karas was a day later
than she should have been; just what day was at best only a local
convention.
In the salon, Simon de Kuyl sighed and laid out the tarots again. Boadacea,
the biggish fourth planet of the Flos Campi array and Simon's present port
of call, was yet a week ahead in urspace, and he was already tired. He had
reasons. His fellow passengers had been dull beyond belief, with the