“Your eyes…” His words falter. “Your hair…”
“Yes?”
“They’re purple-gray. That can’t happen…”
“Good. Other things have changed, too. I’ll expect payment tomorrow.”
His eyes are the ones that drop before she turns and leaves him amid the welter of screens and projectors that have created a new world in the studio … and more. Her steps are no longer tentative as she turns and strides toward the sunshine that lies beyond the door from the studio sensorium, sunshine she’d never really appreciated … until now.
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Viewpoints Critical
Haze
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the New York Times bestselling author of the Saga of Recluce. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE ONE-EYED MAN: A FUGUE, WITH WINDS AND ACCOMPANIMENT
Copyright © 2013 by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
“New World Blues” copyright © 2012 by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Cover art by John Jude Palencar
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Modesitt, L. E., Jr., 1943–
The one-eyed man: a fugue, with winds and accompaniment / L. E. Modesitt, Jr.—First Edition.
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“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 978-0-7653-3544-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-2235-1 (e-book)
1. Imaginary wars and battles—Fiction. 2. Imagery (Psychology)—Fiction. 3. Science fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.O264 O53 2013
813'.54—dc23
2013022128
e-ISBN 9781466822351
First Edition: September 2013