Cover Painting by Ralph Brillhart
Published in January, 1963
Copyright © 1963 by Ivar Jorgensen
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CONTENTS
| [CHAPTER 1] |
| [CHAPTER 2] |
| [CHAPTER 3] |
| [CHAPTER 4] |
| [CHAPTER 5] |
| [CHAPTER 6] |
| [CHAPTER 7] |
| [CHAPTER 8] |
| [CHAPTER 9] |
| [CHAPTER 10] |
| [CHAPTER 11] |
| [CHAPTER 12] |
| [CHAPTER 13] |
1
It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab at the corner of 59th Street and Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, U.S.A. No doubt it was the first motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars.
The pedestrian was walking south on Park Avenue, toward Grand Central Station. He was looking at the upper skeleton of the vast new Pan Am Building which blocked out the sky in that direction. But he should have been watching traffic because a yellow cab tagged him neatly and knocked him across the walk into a clump of pigeons that scattered upward in all directions.