ETERNAL CHICAGO
built to serve man and now seeking mastery of Man
ETERNAL CHICAGO
evolving like a live organism over the millenniums toward the zenith of monstrous perfection
ETERNAL CHICAGO
flourishing behind its force fields as disaster ravishes the globe--and voyagers into space vanish among the stars
ETERNAL CHICAGO
the ultimate battleground between human and extra-human power--where the future of Earth and the universe will be decided [[back cover]
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YOU ARE
► an astronaut turned into a machine, and now searching for your stolen humanity...
► a woman volunteering to be frozen for a hundred thousand years to await the return of your lover...
► a survivor of a holocaust stumbling over a nightmare landscape toward a dream-like city shimmering in the distance...
► a new kind of soldier beginning to doubt his mission as an infinitely powerful instrument of destruction...
► a man hunted by computers through the streets, buildings, and sewers of a vast and murderous metropolis...
► an explorer returning over time and space to the horror that he still thinks of as home...
YOU ARE
► an inhabitant,
► a slave,
► a victim,
► an enemy,
► a witness of...
THE TIME-SWEPT CITY
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Fix-up of "Chicago", "Good and Faithful Servant", "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" and "Far from Eve and Morning"
Cover art by Jack Gaughan