Mantissa
Publisher: Hunter Publishing+inc
Published: April 19, 1984
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780586058190
First sentence: IT was conscious of a luminous and infinite haze, as if it were floating, godlike, alpha and omega, over a sea of vapor and looking down; then less happily, after an interval of obscure duration, of murmured sounds and peripheral shadows, which reduced the impression of boundless space and empire to something much more contracted and unaccommodating.