Cirque (1977)

by Terry Carr

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Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in the galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque - the city on the Abyss, a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, formed from the castoff hates of the Cirquians: a beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is black as sin. Feeble weapons are no match for the Beast. And now, after centuries, it's climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own...… (more)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Terry Carr	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Fernandes, Stanislaw	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Nebula Award (Nominee – Novel – 1977)

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Cirque

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Cirque

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1977

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Arrival and departure are alike:

only the force of will

gives direction to time.

--The Book of Causes

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For Carol

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Alton Techniksson went to the Morning Gate of Cirque every dawn.

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Millennia in the future, Earth has become a backwater planet, ignored by others in the galaxy. Its one jewel is Cirque - the city on the Abyss, a city of love and harmony, with inspiring religious rites. But in the Abyss there lives the Beast, formed from the castoff hates of the Cirquians: a beast whose body is refuse, whose mind is black as sin. Feeble weapons are no match for the Beast. And now, after centuries, it's climbing out of the Abyss to claim its own...

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