When John Lion Deveron meets April McCreagh, a young, beautiful secretary at his newspaper office, a strange fantasy should have warned him that his staid, comfortable (but childless) marriage is endangered. A pleasant summer of luncheons together evolves into only a pattern of family visits, clouded by the disapproval of Lion's wife, Cynthia.

But April's determination, if unconscious, is not to be deterred by his marriage--or her own subsequent one. The social and distance barriers to their union seem insurmountable. However, whether or not, as friend Brightwood suggests, some Destiny is involved, their mutual attraction is inexorable--and Mother wants a grandson.

Dissolving the barriers to their consummation involves Lion's conversion, by virtue of April's poetic fancy, from a rather conservative newsman into a springtime forest god. The conversion successful-at heavy cost-Lion finds that, alas, to trust a woman is to write one's memoirs in the snow. When their tug of war concludes, he is confronted with the ultimate question: has he won or lost?

MARS FOR THE MARTIANS

Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact; everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars.

The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times But this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation and psionics.

And now the rebels realized they were in double jeopardy. Not only from the government's desperate hatred of their movement, but also from the growing possibility that the new breed of mutated monsters would get out of hand and bring terrors never before known to man.

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Charles L. Fontenay writes: "I was born in Brazil of a father who was by birth English and by parentage German and French, and of a mother who was by birth American and by parentage American and Scottish. This mess of internationalism caused me some trouble in the army during World War II as the government couldn't decide whether I was American, British, or Brazilian; and both as an enlisted man and an officer I dealt in secret work which required citizenship by birth. On three occasions I had to dig into the lawbooks. Finally they gave up and admitted I was an American citizen....

"I was raised on a West Tennessee farm and distinguished myself in school principally by being the youngest, smallest (and consequently the fastest-running) child in my classes ... Newspaper work has been my career since 1936. I have worked for three newspapers, including "The Nashville Tennessean" for which I am now rewrite man, and before the war for theAssociated Press."

Mr. Fontenay is married, lives in Madison, Tenn., and has had one other novel published by Ace Books.

Den Beitragen dieses Bandes ist die Frage gemeinsam, inwiefern Sozialstatus und die Teilhabe an einer Revolte zusammenhangen. Nehmen Revolten andere Formen an, wenn unterschiedliche Gesellschaftsschichten daran beteiligt sind? Dabei ist der Sozialstatus gleich zweifach bedeutsam, bei der Betrachtung der Aufstandischen insgesamt und ihrer Anfuhrer. Die Beitrage nehmen auch in den Blick, ob sich aus Revolten womoglich neue Eliten bilden konnen und ob die Aufstande einen dauerhaften sozialen Aufstieg ermoglichen. Der weit gespannte zeitliche Rahmen ermoglicht dabei auch diachrone Vergleiche. Mit Beitragen von: Olivia Carpi, Vincent Challet, Jean-Claude Cheynet, Philippe Depreux, Kai-Henrik Gunther, Uwe Israel, Francois Martin, Steffen Patzold, Jorg Peltzer, Bruno Pottier, Marianne Saghy, Alain Saint-Denis, Werner Trossbach, Hanna Vollrath, Claudia Zey."