Аннотация
Philip Jose Farmer
The Dark Design
Though some of the names in The Riverworld Series are fictional, the characters are or were real. You may not be mentioned, but you're here.
To Sam Long and my godson David, son of Doctor Doctor
And still the Weaver plies his loom, whose warp and woof is wretched Man Weaving th' unpattern'd dark design, so dark we doubt it owns a plan.
-The Kasidah of Haji Abdu al-Yazdi
"Sentence first-verdict afterwards."
-Alice in Wonderland
Foreword
THE BOOK AT HAND IS VOLUME III OF THE RIVERWORLD SERIES.
Originally, it was to be the conclusion of a trilogy. However, the Ms. was more than 400,000 words long. Published under one cover, it would be too heavy and unwieldy for the reader.
Therefore, the publisher and myself decided to cut it into two. Volume TV, The Magic Labyrinth, will follow this book. It will definitely conclude this phase of the series, explai...
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