Creatures of light and darkness
by Roger Zelazny · first published 1969
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The description at [this Wikipedia entry][1] is pretty close. Better to link than to copy-paste. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures_of_Light_and_Darkness/ "Creatures of Light And Darkness"
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…to that. I read a lot of golden and silver age science fiction. One of the things I love about the oldies isn't that they're necessarily better than modern science fiction, it's that they're short. Creatures of Light and Darkness, a fantastic book, is 192 pages. It's a stand-alone story which spans thousands of years, the better part of the universe, and builds such wonderful characters. And the author gets you from here to…
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