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New Celebrations
The Adventures of Anthony Villiers
By Alexei Panshin



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Book I: Star Well


For George Price
and Bob Troester

INTRODUCTION
by Samuel R. Delany

Star Well is a wise, delightful, and well-turned book; and it is something I have never seen in science
fiction before. It is the first of a series of novels that examines the proposition that the world is composed
of small communities of mutual interest. When the pith of that statement is bared as astutely as it is in this
novel, it does not matter which тАЬsmall communityтАЭ you belong to:Star Well hits.
I write this as the second volume of the adventures of Anthony Villiers nears completion. Looking for an
analogue to thisroman fleuve in the mainstream, I come up withA Dance to the Music of Time ,
perhapsMen of Good Will , definitely NOTJalna. Twenty-eight-year-old Mr. PanshinтАЩs credentials for
the undertaking are impressive. He is the author of one fine and solidly classical sf novel,Rite of Passage
; he was the recipient of a тАЬHugoтАЭ award from the World Science Fiction Convention in 1967 for his
critical writing over the previous year; he recently published the first full-length study of Robert Heinlein,
Heinlein in Dimension ; his short stories have appeared inAnalog ,If ,Fantasy & Science Fiction , and
Galaxy .