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THE KINSMAN SAGA
Copyright й 1987 by Ben Bova
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or
portions thereof in any form.
First printing: October 1987
A TOR Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
49 West 24 Street
New York, N.Y. 10010
Cover art by Pat Rawlins
ISBN: 0-312-93026-7
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 87-50484
Printed in the United States of America
0987654321
Author's Foreword:
Reality and Symbols
I HAVE RETURNED to where I started, returned to Chet
Kinsman, to the character who has haunted me since I first
began writing seriously.
If you have read the Tor Books edition of As on a
Darkling Plain, you know the genesis of this book: How I
wrote a very early version of it in 1949-50, a version that
predicted the Space Race of the 1960s, which culminated in
the American landings on the Moon. How Ihe novel was
rejected everywhere, in part because publishers were afraid it
would incur the wrath of anti-Communist witch-hunters such
as Senator Joseph McCarthy. How Arthur C. Clarke encour-
aged me to keep writing, and how eventually I was able to
hand him the first copy of the first edition of Millennium.
When Millennium was originally published, in 1976, the
idea of putting laser-armed satellites in orbit to shoot down
nuclear-armed ballistic missiles was widely regarded as fan-
