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THE SKY ROAD
KEN MACLEOD

TOR
ATOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK NEW YORK

NOTE: If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed'* to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE SKY ROAD
First published in Great Britain by Orbit
Copyright й 1999 by Ken MacLeod
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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ISBN: 0-812-57759-0
First U.S. edition: August 2000
First mass market edition: August 2001
Printed in the United States of America 0987654321

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CONTENTS
1 THE LIGHT AND THE FAIR 1
2 ANCIENT TIME 17
3 THE SHIP O THE YIRD 36
4 PAPER TIGERS 76
5 THE CHURCH OF MAN 101
6 LIGHT WEAPONS 132
7 THE CLAIMANT BAR 163
8 WESTERN APPROACHES 193
9 THE SICKLE'S SANG 219

10 FORGET BABYLON 240
11 THE ROCK COVENANT 273
12 DARK ISLAND 300
13 THE SEA EAGLE 340
14 FINAL ANALYSIS 359
15 THE HAMMER'S HARVEST 402
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THE LIGHT AND THE FAIR
So it came that Menial found him in the square at Carron Town

S
he walked through the fair in the light of a northern summer evening, looking for me. Of the hundreds of people around her, the thousands in the town and the thousands on the project, only I would serve her purpose. My voice and visage, mind and body were her target acquisition parameters.