A Tranquil Star: Stories Rebecca Stark "Scalzi is one of the

"Scalzi is one of the slickest writers that SF has ever produced

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and remembering that it was all illegal

a regular who she asks to join a canoeing trip she's leading for her university day job

A Tranquil Star: Stories Rebecca Stark "Scalzi is one of theThese seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a middle aged chemist experimenting with a new paint that wards off evil, to the lustful thoughts of an older man obsessed with a mysterious woman in a seaside villa. In the title story, Levi demonstrates his unerringly tragic understanding of the fragility of