Richard Ames doesn’t like the fact that a new acquaintance was killed while dining at his
table. Killed, why? and by whom? and why won’t that cat stay put? The eventual answers
could lead Richard to Lazarus Long, the Time Corps, and more multiperson pantheistic
solipsism.
My darling had planned a pianissimo approach: Live for a time on Tertius (a heavenly
place), get me hooked on multiverse history and time travel theory, et cetera. Not crowd
me about signing up, but depend on the fact that she and Gretchen and Ezra and others
(Uncle Jock, e.g.) were in the Corps. . . until I asked to be allowed to be sworn in.
DEBUT
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners (G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
November 1985).
VARIANTS
Debut. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls: A Comedy of Manners (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, November 1985).
My darling had planned a pianissimo approach: Live for a time on Tertius (a heavenly
place), get me hooked on multiverse history and time travel theory, et cetera. Not crowd
me about signing up, but depend on the fact that she and Gretchen and Ezra and others
(Uncle Jock, e.g.) were in the Corps. . . until I asked to be allowed to be sworn in.
1 English variant