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Author: Alan Dean Foster
Title: Nor Crystal Tears
Series: A Novel of the Humanx Commonwealth

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Original copyright year: 1982
Genre: Science Fiction
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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright й 1982 by Alan Dean Foster

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American 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, Canada.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-8836

ISBN 0-345-32447-1

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition: September 1982
Sixth Printing: January 1985

Cover art by Michael Whelan
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For the tiger with the little-girl voice and the velvet claws,
My agent, Virginia Kidd, with thanks for
Ten years of encouraging purrs and constructive scratches.
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Chapter One

It's hard to be a larva. At first there's nothing. Very gradually a dim,
uncertain consciousness coalesces from nothingness. Awareness of the world
arrives not as a shock, but as a gray inevitability. The larva cannot move,
cannot speak. But it can think.
His first memories, naturally, were of the Nursery: a cool, dimly lit tubular