About the Book
A collection of short fiction and one novel.
Locus Award nominee 1979.
Contents:
- Wings of Victory
- The Problem of Pain
- How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson
- Margin of Profit
- Esau (also known as Birthright)
- The Season of Forgiveness
- The Man Who Counts (the first appearance of the unedited version of War of the Wing-Men)
- A Little Knowledge
- Day of Burning (also known as Supernova)
- Lodestar
- Wingless (also known as Wingless on Avalon)
- Rescue on Avalon
One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayn; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept this record at far Stormgate.
"Behold these animals from
the discovery on through the World-Taking. They are garnered from
different trees, and few of them will seem at once to grow toward the
same sun. Yet they do.
"This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and
thus our choth to being. This is the tale as told by Terrans, who walk
the Earth...
"Then read."
