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A Del Rey Book
Rabllshed by Ballantire Books
Copyright O 1985 by Alan Dean Foster
All rights reserved under lmamational and Pan‑Aanerican, Copyright
Conventions.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random
House,
Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada
Limited,
Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85‑9'0718

ISBN 0‑345‑319110‑

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: September 1985

Cover Art by Barclay Shaw
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Here's one for Don and Dana Carroll to peruse
while they're fixing Italy...
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Chapter one

A fine day it was; clear and cloudless, bright (oh, how bright!) and cheerful,
a
day on which all things seemed possible. Even dying. Dying had not been on
Evan
Orgell's schedule for the day, but that was the result he was on the verge of
achieving. And there wasn't a damn thing he could do to prevent it.
Because his suit was broker.
All around him the extraordinary, phantasmagorical world called Prism teemed
with life. His visit to Prism was supposed to set him up for life. Now it
appeared likely it was going to set him up for something else.
The air centimeters from his face was rich with oxygen he couldn't breathe.
Nearby burbled a stream of fresh, cool water he couldn't drink. It mowed
through
a forest full of plants and animals he couldn't eat.
Prism's sun warmed his face. It was intensely bright but no hotter than the
star
which circled Evan's own world, Samstead. At midday the temperature was
posi-tively benign. He could breathe the air of Prism, drink its water, eat
his
own rations, and yet he was going to die. He was going to die because his suit