Book description
In an incredible far future, the known laws of Time and Space no longer
apply to the world - and the seed of Man has mutated. Lobey is a mutant,
different because he can hear the music in people's minds. And when he
encounters the beautiful dead-mute, Friza, he knows he has found a
kindred soul. Then Friza is killed, by someone or something unknown, and
Lobey, driven by a knowledge he does not understand, sets out to bring
her back from the dead. His journey leads him to strange lands and
stranger people: people such as Spider, the eternal traitor incarnate;
the Dove, embodiment of beauty; and Green-Eye, doomed to be the victim
of a ritual as old as Time. And always in the background, always
waiting, stands the shadow of the chilling, childlike killer from the
sea. The being called Kid Death . . . Winner of the Nebula Award for
best novel, 1968 Born in 1942 in Harlem, New York, Samuel R. Delany
has become one of SF's most influential and discussed authors. He has
won the Nebula Award four times and the Hugo twice. Since 2001 he has
been Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University in
Philadelphia.
