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That'll make them di'monds tired of the company they're keeping. ' "He said that's the ticket and with him looking straight at me I slid myself into Bud's boots instead of my own and he never noticed. They was just a shade large for me but that was considerable better than. cheap celebrex And sixth story sales respectively; and they aren't that good. Furthermore "The Coldest Place" was obsolete before it ever reached print. But these two stories are part of the fabric of the series so I've included them. 3. You may feel that Mars itself is changing as you read through the book. Right you are. "Eye of an Octopus" is set on pre-Mariner Mars. Mariner IV's photographs of the craters on Mars sparked "How the Heroes Die. " Sometime later an article in Analog shaped the new view of the planet in "At the Bottom of a Hole. " If the space probes keep redesigning our planets what can we do but write new stories? 4. I ! was sore tempted to rewrite some of the older clumsier stories. But how would I have known where to stop? You would then have been reading updated stories with the facts changed around. I've assumed that that isn't what you're after. I hope I'm right. 5. The Tales of Known Space cluster around five eras. First there is the near future the exploration of interplanetary space during the next quarter-century. There is the era of Lucas Garner and Gil "the ARM' Hamilton: 2106-2125 AD. Interplanetary civilization has loosened its ties with Earth has taken on a character of its own. Other stellar systems are being explored and settled. The organ bank problem is at its sociological worst on Earth. The existence of nonhuman intelligence has become obtrusively plan; humanity must adjust. There is an intermediate era centering around 2340 AD. In Sol System it is a period of peace and prosperity. On colony worlds like Plateau times are turbulent. At the edge of Sol System ! a creature that used to be Jack Brennan fights a lone war. The era of peace begins with the subtle interventions of the Brennan-monster (see Protector); it ends in contact with the Kzinti Empire. The fourth period following the Man-Kzin Wars covers part of the twenty-sixth century AD. It is a time of easy tourism and interspecies trade in which the human species neither rules nor is ruled. New planets have been settled some of which were wrested from the Kzinti Empire during the wars. The fifth period resembles the fourth. Little has changed in two hundred years at least on the surface. The thruster drive has replaced the less efficient fusion drives; a. dwda8r85r85788dfc88we4865h11se