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Cover art: Peter Cross
Blurb: “In the futuristic society that serves as the setting for this elegantly chilling novel, the State decides whom one will choose as one's mate. In any case, professional boundaries cannot be crossed, and thus the young mathematician Haldane IV cannot fall in love with or marry the girl of his choice, the poet Helix. But as the young couple studies ever more closely the long-hidden poems of Fairweather I, whose work years before had completely altered the whole nature of society and who is universally acknowledged to be the greatest mathematician since Einstein, they realize the verses hold important messages for them—and for the world. What, for example, does this couplet mean?
That he who loses wins the race,...
That parallel lines must meet in space.
Even as they ponder, they know that the price, if they are caught, is exile to the planet Hell.”