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• James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1980)
• Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (1983)
• CNA Literary Award (1980)
• Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1981)

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy for the victims, and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison.

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