A, B, C

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They Fly at Çiron…

Aptor, Beta-2, Çiron…A, B, C, and there’s my title.

The subtitle tells what follows: Three Short Novels.

This book contains my first published novel, a science fantasy, The Jewels of Aptor, much as I wrote it in the winter of 1961–62. Officially it was released December 1, 1962. I saw copies late that November.

As I’d conceived and written the book, its audience was my brilliant, talented wife of those years, the poet Marilyn Hacker — nine months younger than I but always at least a year ahead of me in school. Walking up and over the school roof to get to classes, as all the entering students had been instructed to do, so as not to bother the elementary school students with whom we shared the building, we’d met on our first day of high school. Two years later Marilyn went on to NYU as an early admissions student at fifteen and finished her classes in three years. When we married on August 24, 1961, she was eighteen and I was nineteen.

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