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Allen Steele




Labyrinth of Night

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint material from the following:
Return to the Red Planet by Eric Burgess, copyright ┬й 1990 by the Columbia University
Press, New York. Used by permission.
Powershift by Alvin Toffler, copyright ┬й 1990 by Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler; used by
permission of Bantam Books, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
Mars by Percival Lowell, copyright 1895 by Percival Lowell; Houghton Mifflin and
Company, Boston.
"The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot, from Collected Poems, 1909-1962, copyright 1936 by
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., copyright ┬й 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot; reprinted by permission
of the publisher.
"I Know You Rider" is reprinted from the Folksinger's Wordbook, compiled and edited by
Fred and Irwin Sibler, copyright ┬й 1973 by Oak Publications, New York.
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, copyright 1897 by H. G. Wells.
An earlier and substantially different version of the first part of this novel appeared in Isaac
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in September, 1989.
 This one's for Frank Jacobs . . .
who wouldn't take no for an answer.




ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author extends his appreciation to the following persons for their assistance in the
research and development of this novel: Koji Mukai, Tom Scheelings, Randy Kennedy, Phil
Unger, Bob Liddil, Gardner Dozois, Sheila Williams, James Patrick Kelly, Kent Orlando, Doug
Ferguson, Malcolm Hopker, Mike Nugent, Gary Freeman, and Bob Eggleton. I'm also grateful
for the continued support of Deborah Beale, Charon Wood, Ginjer Buchanan, Carol Lowe, Susan
Allison, Martha Millard, and Shelly Powers. Special thanks, as always, are also due to my wife,
Linda.
Most of the scientific background and technological extrapolation has been drawn from the
published papers of the first three "Case For Mars" conferences, held at the University of
Colorado in Boulder between 1981 and 1987; much of the rest was gleaned from such diverse
sources as space-science and astronomy texts, newspaper clippings, and interesting plastic model
kits. However, the most controversial source for this novel is its very springboard for inspiration:
the so-called "Face" and the nearby "City" in the Cydonia region of Mars.
Most of the details of these alleged "alien artifacts" were derived from two books which
have been published about the subject: The Monuments of Mars, by Richard C. Hoagland and The