stealing backstory/background
Ah, the stealing of notions. How much fun it is. How much work it takes, filing off the serial numbers before the story is your own. . . .
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2013-07-15
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The Zero Stone
The Zero Stone by Andre Norton
Talk about opening in medias res. Jern appears fleeing for his life from the killers of his mentor -- a cult called the Green Robes, which usually avoided off-worlders, this time selected "randomly" for human sacrifice two of them, a gemologist and his apprentice Jern.
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Talk about opening in medias res. Jern appears fleeing for his life from the killers of his mentor -- a cult called the Green Robes, which usually avoided off-worlders, this time selected "randomly" for human sacrifice two of them, a gemologist and his apprentice Jern.
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