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288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1963
“The rain was a slantwise curtain across the dingy street, washing soot from city walls, the taste of it metallic on the lips of the tall, thin man who walked with a loping stride close to the buildings, watching the mouths of doorways, the gaps of alleys with a narrow-eyed intentness.”That right there puts this a level above a lot of 1960s science fiction and fantasy. The vivid picture, the shifts in attention in the sentence, the slipped-in anticipation. The first chapter gives notice to the reader that Andre Norton knows how to tell a story. And that story, while still of the sword and sorcery variety, had little else generic about it.