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This is one of a set of stories written in the early 70s when Silverberg was really trying to reach beyond conventional storytelling. After reading the entertaining and interesting narrative, you are left with little idea what actually
happened. There is not a plot in the everyday sense (A happened, then B, etc). Breckenridge is a successful New York
stockbroker who was born in 1940 and is going through an existential crisis of the Is this
all there is to life?
variety. He's also exploring a far-future wasteland with a group of
archeologists, searching for a lost city. There are numerous interlocking themes in
common between the two lines of action, many of which are stated explicitly in charts in
the text. The richness of detail in both stories is fascinating, and the wasteland setting
could easily be revisited in other stories.
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