The Empty People
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First there was Della, the woman who wanted . . . love? She did not - could not - know, for where love should have been was emptiness.
Then came the Poet, who wanted only to please, but did not know how. His every effort was rejected - but he could not stop trying.
Rogers was the completion, the part above all other parts that made the whole.
And then there was Archer - and the thing in his brain . . .
Barry N. Malzberg
Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than thirty science fiction novels and hundreds of short stories, as well as several thrillers and erotic novels under his own name and various pseudonyms. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo. His 1982 collection of critical essays, The Engines of the Night, was a major contribution to the field of science fiction.
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