We end this issue with a novella by the multi-talented Ray Aldridge. Ray's first novel, The Pharaoh Contract, appeared from Bantam last year. The second novel, The Emperor of Everything, will follow shortly. Ray's novels, and most of his short...
Slavery is the corporate foundation of the powerful Pangalic Worlds where Ruiz Aw leads a dangerous double life, as an enforcer for the Art League that so brutally controls its slaves and as an Emancipator dedicated to eradicating the cruel...
Ruiz Aw is an Art League enforcer sent to investigate the disappearance of several slaves from the planet Pharaoh prior to their being “harvested”. They are the property of the Art League and their property has been stolen. Ruiz is an ex-slave...
This story, which is about bondage and freedom and a dying race on a dying world, is the first of several we have from one of the most interesting new writers we have seen in some time. Mr. Aldridge lives in Florida and writes that he has been a...
The mythology of another country also touches Ray Aldridge's «Winedark». The story is set off the coast of Greece, and that country's ancient and sometimes terrible beauty flavors each line. Ray's story «The Gate of Faces», from our April 1991...