“We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.”

— Tanith Lee, book Vazkor, Son of Vazkor

Book Two, Part II “The Wolf Hunt”, Chapter 2 (p. 178)
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)

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British writer 1947–2015

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