Inquestor Tales Three: The Child Collector

After 33 years, S.P. Somtow is finally creating a fifth book in the Inquestor universe, the galaxy-spanning science fantasy series that Theodore Sturgeon called the greatest magnitude of spectacle and color since Olaf Stapledon. The book is being released in a series of installments in pulp-sized magazine format. INQUESTOR TALES No. 3 contains the third episode of the novel, interesting notes on the Inquestral Highspeech, a bonus reprint of the original version of Remembrances , a story incorporated into the tetralogy but never reprinted in its magazine form, a lettercolumn, and other notes and mini-articles from S.P. Somtow as well as from many of the field’s most interesting commentarians. In this episode, the plot thickens as a Child Collector comes to Urna to gather up the most perfect children t ? o be trained as childsoldiers. With their shared DNA, only ONE of the dopplings will be snatched up - but which one