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Dickerman gingerly performed introductions: “Duke Gassman, Duke Holox...” and finally: “I present to you my successor, Mr. Milton Hack of Zodiac Control. He is an expert military strategist, as well as an economic authority; with your cooperation he will solve the various problems of Sabo.”

Republished as “Milton Hack from Zodiac” in Chateau d’If and Other Stories, Spatterlight, 2012.

Comments:

“The narrow land” was meant as the first part of a three part sequence, as requested by an editor. (ref) The remaining two parts were never written, according to Vance for lack of time. (Morreion, MSF meulenhoff, preface).

Republished in Chateau d'If and Other Stories, Spatterlight 2012.