Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories.

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They Twinkled Like Jewels
Rastignac the Devil

Rastignac the Devil-
Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's story-telling best. It's a vibrant, distractingly different tale of three centuries into the future. And as you read you'll have a vague, uneasy feeling that it's all taking place somewhere in the unexplored parts of the universe, even today.

"Enslaved by a triangular powered despotism--one lone man sets his sights to the Six Bright Stars and eventual freedom of his world." (Unauthorized rewrite, "ruined" according to Farmer.)

They Twinkled Like Jewels-
Crane didn't get the nice man's name--until it was far too late to do anything at all about it.