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Open Road Media on Amazon as a huge list of freebies right this second: Sheckley, Silverberg, Poul Anderson, John Jakes, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber, Jane Yolen, Brian Aldiss, Andre Norton, Samuel Delaney, John Bellairs, Adrian Cole, George Effinger, Piers Anthony, Ian MacLeod. No idea why or how long it will last...

This is very probably a bad idea.

Too similar to her other books, honestly.

Also: what up with that cover? Was Jeffrey Jones having an off day or something?

Two words: "Monkey Ghoul".

Mm. Three, possibly four typos on the back cover alone. This bodes ill.

Loving this. Wish-listing all the Shea I can find.

What right does this book have to kick ass?

Very pleasantly surprised at the quality of writing. Why did they reorder this to be #7?

This should result in an entertaining review...

First observation: looks like the publishers switched this cover with the one from Hands in the Dark.

Not for kids.

Short mythological tales strangely without moral.

Wanted some weird, off-kilter future superscience.

Abridged? Don't care.

Corny? Oh my God yes.

Sequel has been ordered.

A genocidal confict, the mass exodus to a nearby planet, and a vengeful, petty king.

Also: pi = 3, here, and humans have twelve fingers.

Add political maneuvering, a tense home situation, and ecological conservation. And a space program.

Thirty pages and already have suggestions of an unusual ecosystem, technology, hierarchical society, and imperialism. Impressive.

Oh. There's the love. It was hidden on the back shelf all this time.

Not feeling the love.

The boy is not showing much signs of appreciation or comprehension, but at least he enjoys the texture of the clothbound cover and the pages. I will take any available victory.