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Copyright © 2004 by Tim Powers
The Skies Discrowned © 1976 by Tim Powers
Republished in slightly different form as Forsake the Sky by Tor Books, 1986
Epitaph in Rust © 1976 by Tim Powers
Republished in corrected form, in a limited edition, as An Epitaph in Rust by NESFA Press, 1989
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