The Night Shapes - James Blish - 1962 Ballantine Books Paperback

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Blurb: “JAMES BLISH ••• author of Hugo Award Winner"A Case of Conscience," describes his latest work, THE NIGHT SHAPES, as a historical novel. He may be right. It may be true that the extraordinary events he describes could have happened.

Even today, many parts of Africa are still largely un-known, belief in primitive powers still strong. But in the early 1900's, at the time of which Blish writes, vast areas of the continent remained unexplored, witch doctors reigned supreme, their remarkable powers inexplicable but certainly undeniable, and for-ests, plains, jungle and mountain teemed with forms of life then unencountered by modern man.

So maybe THE NIGHT SHAPES could have hap-pened. We don't pretend to know. But we do know that provable or not, fantasy or merely fiction, THE NIGHT SHAPES is one of the most hair-raisingly entertaining adventures any reader could enjoy.

Note: Readers who doubt the behavior of Manal-endi, a remarkably dignified python, are referred to the life of Grace Wiley, noted herpetologist.

AND DON'T MISS”