About the book: year / This story of slavery, freedom and a dying race in a dying world is the first of several we have received from one of the most exciting new writers, from the number of those we have been able to estimate recently. Mr. Aldridge lives in Florida and wrote to us that he has been making pottery and stained glass for 15 years. “My wife Nancy is a psychologist, the ideal companion for a science fiction writer. I'm half Cherokee and I grow wonderful tomatoes." "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", April 1988, p. 32.