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The Traveler in Black
By John Brunner


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In those days, the forces were none of them chained. They raged unchecked through every corner and quarter of the cosmos.

Here ruled Laprivan of the Yellow Eyes, capricious, whimsical; when he stared things melted in frightful agony. At another place, creatures in number one million fought desperately for the possession of a single grain of dust; the fury of their contesting laid waste solar systems.

On planets circling a million suns creatures who could think struggled to reduce the chaos to order, and when they thought they had most nearly achieved it, chance ordained that all their work should go for nothing, absorbed again into the faceless dark.

"But that was before me," said the Traveler in Black, and squashed the bubble so that it burst.

JOHN BRUNNER was born in England in 1934. His interest in science fiction began at the age of six when "someone misguidedly left a copy of The War of the Worlds in the nursery." He sold his first sf paperback at the age of 17, and since then has sold over 40 books (novels, short novels and collections of stories) and contributed to all the leading sf magazines in Britain and the U.S.

In 1966 he was made the first recipient of the British Fantasy Award, and in 1969 he won the Hugo Award for Best SF Novel of the Year, Stand on Zanzibar.

He and his wife Marjorie live in Hampstead, London, and his other interests include folk and topical song, and touring Britain and Europe in his 120-mph sports convertible.

THE TRAVELER IN BLACK
by JOHN BRUNNER

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THE TRAVELER IN BLACK

Copyright (c) 1971 by Brunner
Fact and Fiction Ltd.
An Ace Book. All Rights Reserved

An earlier version of IMPRINT OF CHAOS first
appeared in Science Fantasy.

An earlier version of BREAK THE DOOR OF
HELL first appeared in Impulse.

An earlier version of THE WAGER LOST BY
WINNING and an earlier version of DREAD
EMPIRE first appeared in Fantastic.

This text is completely revised for book publication.

Printed in U.S.A.

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