Moondust Author:Thomas Burnett Swann Thomas Burnett Swann has already won himself a special place in the world of fantasy and science-fiction for his marvelous evocations of forgotten ages and lost peoples. For he has taken the infinite range of the past for his province, and, bringing to it the learning of a scholar and the talent of a poet, he has woven wonders. His latest -- and... more » many will say his finest book to date -- takes as its time the city of Jericho under the siege, yet it is not a Biblical story nor a tale of warfare, but rather a marvelous science-fiction novel about a non-human intelligent species hidden from the world's eye, about their human and humanoid subjects, and filled with the wizardry of a science older than humanity. Moondust is certain to rank with the best science-fiction of this year and any other.« less