Samuel R. Delany

* #6 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written

* Winner of the Nebula Award as best sf novel of the year

* 'The first of a remarkable series of vital and stunning masterpieces, a dazzlingly realised star-spanning epic populated with truly mysterious aliens and humans entirely believable yet gorgeously strange. After this, the future was never the same again' -- Paul J. McAuley