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Humpty Dumpty: An Oval

by Damon Knight

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Info:	Tor Books (1996), Edition: 1st ed, Hardcover
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A fractured novel of a mind in chaos. I'm not sure that I understood the point of the whole work, but I liked its many shards. (

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My ears were made keen by always listening. Often, wherever I was, even at the top of the house, I waited motionless for the enormous clock to strike, lest the boom take me by surprise. -- Robert Aickman, 'The Fetch'

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For Chris and Rosanne

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Mimmuzmaz. Kunruht: somebody was snoring.

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The former editor of Orbit, the influential series of hard-cover anthologies of science fiction that flourished from 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight is a distinguished writer, editor, and critic of science fiction. In his latest work the hero, Wellington Stout, wakes up with a bullet in his head and a distorted perception of the world. Strangely, others seem to think he holds the answers to the questions that confound him. With Stout threatened by forces he only dimly understands, Knight offers an inspired and fast-paced race towards enlightenment.

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