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THE END OF THE LINE
by Robert Silverberg
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Our resident Grand Master, Robert Silverberg, is a long-time professional writer and winner of many Hugos and Nebulas who lives in California. His latest story is a new Majipoor tale that predates the events that took place in “The Time of the Burning” (March 1982). “The End of the Line” will be the first story in a new collection called Tales of Majipoor.
“If you really want to learn something about the Shapeshifters,” the District Resident said, “you ought to talk to Mundiveen. He lived among them for about a dozen years, you know.”
“And where do I find this Mundiveen?” Stiamot asked.
“Oh, you’ll see him around. Crazy old doctor with a limp. Eccentric, annoying, a mean little man—he stands right out.”
It was Stiamot’s second day in Domgrave, the largest city—an overgrown town, really—in this obscure corner of northwestern Alhanroel. He had never been in this part of the continent before. No one he knew ever had, either. This was agricultural country, a fertile land of odd greenish soil where a widely spaced series
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