p. 69 is an internal title page;
p. 70 is blank;
pp. 71-72 are a quotation from The Song of Grotte which could have fitted onto a single page;
pp. 73-173 are the text, divided into 18 chapters.
On pp. 73-74, the viewpoint character, Collie, kills two assailants, one of them an Indian too old to be a mutant, the other a teenage mutie. From the fact that Collie leaps to a branch twenty feet above, we infer that he also is a mutie.
We have encountered different characters in the Prologue, in "Chain of Logic" and now in "The Children of Fortune" and are still within a generation of the War. Twilight World will transport us into a remote future in its short Epilogue, a slow-paced future history.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
One hundred pages for "Children of Fortune"? I'm reminded of your rule of thumb that a story 100 or more pages long should be considered a novel.
And I noticed how times were still dangerous if Collie was attacked by these two outlaws. And I sure as heck can't jump twenty feet!
Sean
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