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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright © 1990 by C.J. Cherryh
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 90-559
ISBN 0-345-37351-0
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Hardcover Edition: October 1990
First Mass Market Edition: October 1991
Cover Art by Keith Parkinson