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In memory of my father
Acknowledgments

A totally inadequate thank you to my editors: Viki Wright, whose
patience and encouragement over two years kept me going through every
draft; and Louise Thurtell, whose skill and perceptivity turned the
final draft into a pubis hable manuscript.
Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point
to one end, which is always present. "Burnt Norton," T.S. Eliot,
1944

Dream the center far for me When it burns then we may see Paths
outflung in fixity Deceive us

Cry the center close to me Let the burning rivers flee Tears we shed
together will Redeem us

Sing the center into me Fill the light and set me free Now and then
forever be Within us

"Invidi chant," from A Child's Book of Alien Verses, 2098
Before

Uhen I was a little girl my great-grandmother would tell me stories of
the days before the Invidi came to Earth.