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I intended to spend a year or two trying to break into print, to settle once and for all the question of whether I was ever going to make it as a professional writer.

In 1974 I flunked out of college and went to live in a funky old apartment in Pittsburgh, where I labored at various odd jobs - cooking at the local Arby's, cleaning up the bio labs at the Mellon Institute of Science, etc - while spending most of my time writing. The fourteen years of subjective time he had spent in space worked out to about three hundred years of outside time, and he doubted very much that anyone on Old Earth had been making breakthroughs in geriatrics after the war was lost. There could be little doubt that his superiors were all long dead if the war hadn't killed them, the passage of time would have. He had been under total communications silence when the D-series destroyed Old Earth's military - and probably its civilization as well - and since then, of course, there had been no signal at all from his home base on Mars. He had no idea, and there was no way he could find out. He lay back on the acceleration couch and wondered idly whether he had been officially decommissioned, and whether anybody left alive had the authority to decommission him.

The Cyborg and the Sorcerers by Lawrence Watt-Evans Chapter One The local inhabitants call the anomalies 'magic.' Then he comes across a planet where his sensors register 'gravitational anomalies.' The computer interprets these as enemy weapons research. The fighting ended three hundred years ago, but Slant's computer does not admit this - he is compelled to carry on as if the war were still raging. The cyborg code-named 'Slant' was sent out as an Independent Reconaissance Unit during an interstellar war between Earth and its colonies. It was reissued as half of Wildside Double #5 in September 2010, and as an ebook in February, 2011. The Cyborg and the Sorcerers was my first science fiction novel, initially published by Del Rey Books in June 1982, ISBN 1-1, with cover art by David B. A Novel by Lawrence Watt-Evans Book One of War Surplus

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