![]() Unreason darkens that gap of time bridged by our lightspeed ships, and in the darkness uncertainty and disproportion grow like weeds. ![]() ![]() How can you tell the legend from the fact on these worlds that lie so many years away? - planets without names, called by their people simply The World, planets without history, where the past is the matter of myth, and a returning explorer finds his own doings of a few years back have become the gestures of a god. I am still a romantic, no doubt about that, and glad of it, but the candor and simplicity of "Semley's Necklace" have gradually become something harder, stronger, and more complex. The progress of my style has been away from open romanticism, slowly and steadily, from this story to the last one in the volume, written in 1972. ![]() ![]() This story, written in 1963, published as "Dowry of the Angyar"in 1964 and as the Prologue of my first novel, Rocannon's World, in 1966, was actually the eighth story I got printed but it opens the book because I think it's the most characteristic of my early science fiction and fantasy works, the most romantic of them all. ![]()
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