by Clayton, Jo;
Timka.
She and her sister never do meet, Telka uses up her energies whipping her Town into shape and has none left to go after Timka. Timka settles into Mintown for a while, telling her adventures, getting to know her people again, serving as a center of restlessness and disruption until she gets bored as Skeen had predicted, takes off and begins wandering about the world, visiting people and places she’d touched on her hurried drive across the world and back.
Rostico Burn.
Dumped on Sundari, he converts his take to credit and goes off on a roon raid with Henry O.
Skeen and Tibo.
They fill their contracts with the Rallykx without interference from Cidder, retrieve Workhorse, collapse afterward at the Nymph’s Navel for some much needed playtime. They are flush with credit and constrained only by the need to keep an eye open for Abel Cidder and his minions.
SO. THERE YOU ARE. CYCLE COMPLETE, A NEW CYCLE BEGINS.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jo Clayton (1939–1998) was the author of thirty-five published novels and numerous short stories in the fantasy and science fiction genres. She was best known for the Diadem Saga, in which an alien artifact becomes part of a person’s mind. She also wrote the Skeen Trilogy, the Duel of Sorcery series, and many more. Jo Clayton’s writing is marked by complex, beautifully realized societies set in exotic worlds and stories inhabited by compelling heroines. Her illness and death from multiple myeloma galvanized her local Oregon fan community and science fiction writers and readers nationwide to found the Clayton Memorial Medical Fund.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1987 by Jo Clayton
Cover design by Andy Ross
ISBN: 978-1-5040-3847-8
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