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  +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | More Doubleday Science Fiction: | | | | NECROMANCER | | Gordon R. Dickson | | | | Paul Formain, a young mining engineer, has discovered that | | someone--or something--is making attempts on his life; | | inexplicably, he finds himself possessed of the uncanny | | ability to escape his unknown nemesis. | | | | With the knowledge that he somehow has strange powers, | | Formain approaches the Chantry--a small but important | | organization involved in trying to save the world from the | | horrors of technology. He is accepted as an apprentice | | necromancer, passes all the tests of the black magic | | society, and is initiated as a member. | | | | Set in the Chicago Complex, a multi-level city with | | individual subway cars and automatic libraries, NECROMANCER | | is science fiction in the popular cosmic | | style--thought-provoking and entertaining. | +--------------------------------------------------------------+

  +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | RANDALL GARRETT wrote his first successful short story at | | the age of fourteen, for which he was awarded a check from | | his editor and a C-minus from his English teacher. Mr. | | Garrett spent his youth in various places in the United | | States--living wherever his Army officer father was | | assigned--and received his higher education at Texas | | Technological College. He is the author of three novels (two | | in collaboration with Robert Silverberg) and a biography of | | Pope John XXIII, and has had short stories published in all | | of the science fiction magazines. | | | | JACKET BY RICHARD POWERS | | | | _Printed in the U.S.A._ | +--------------------------------------------------------------+

  +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Notes & Errata | | | | Superscripts are enclosed in braces (curly brackets) and | | are preceded by a caret. | | | | Subscripts are enclosed in braces (curly brackets) and | | are preceded by an underscore. | | | | Two instances each of a 'U' with breve are rendered as | | plain 'U's. | | | | Two instances of an 'o' with macron are rendered as | | plain 'o's. | | | | The following typographical errors have been corrected. | | | | |Error |Correction | | | |Captan |Captain | | | |purity |purty | | | |supercedes |supersedes | | | |collossal |colossal | | | |atempts |attempts | | +----------------------------------------------------------+