"David Wingrove - Chung Kuo 4 - The Stone Within" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wingrove David)

Publisher, except where permitted by law.




The trademark Dell┬о is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Wingrove, David The stone within

(Chung kuo ; bk. 4) ISBN 0-385-29876-5

I. Title. II. Series: Wingrove, David. Chung kuo ; bk. 4. PR6073.153558 1993 823'.914 тВм93-094218-3

ISBN: 0-440-50569-0




Printed in the United States of America

Published simultaneously in Canada

September 1993 10 98765432 BVG


for brian and margaret aldiss,
Whose love of things Chinese and of the

vast worlds of the imagination set me upon

this path. With much love.




"For every one of us it is the same. Worlds end or open as we go."

Wasps and ants have a mean fate: how could their power be enduring?

тАФTurn Wen ("Heavenly Questions") by Ch'u Yuan, from the Ch'u Tz'u ("Songs of the South"), second century B.C.
Can't teach a true peach being a prisoner Skin all round and stone within

тАФJukka Tolonen, Last Quarters, 1972

Acknowledgments
AS THE BEAST GROWS longer and the shape of it clearer, the list of people I ought to thank
grows with it. Let's begin with my editors, Carolyn Caughey, Brian DeFiore, and John Pearce, for sheer