Rue Soleil d’Or From Four to Five Together En Famille Jardin Russe The Café des Bulgars The Cercle Extranationale A Rat Hunt Sunrise The First Day THE DARK STAR xviii THE DARK STAR PREFACE CHILDREN OF THE STAR Not the dark companion of Sirius, brightest of all stars—not our own chill and spectral planet rushing toward Vega in the constellation of Lyra—presided at the birth of millions born to corroborate a bloody horoscope. But a Dark Star, speeding unseen through space, known to the ancients, by them called Erlik, after the Prince of Darkness, ruled at the birth of those myriad souls destined to be engulfed in the earthquake of the ages, or flung by it out of the ordered pathway of their lives into strange byways, stranger highways—into deeps and deserts never dreamed of. Also one of the dozen odd
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