Fred Saberhagen - Pawn to Infinity

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PAWN TO INFINITY

Edited by

Fred & Joan Saberhagen

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION, Fred Saberhagen

THE MARVELOUS BRASS CHESSPLAYING AUTOMATON,

Gene Wolfe

UNICORN VARIATION, Roger Zelazny

THE IMMORTAL GAME, Poul Anderson

MIDNIGHT BY THE MORPHY WATCH, Fritz Leiber

UNSOUND VARIATIONS, George R.R. Martin

A GAME OF VLET, Joanna Russ

WITHOUT A THOUGHT, Fred Saberhagen

A BOARD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, Ruth Berman

VON GOOM'S GAMBIT, Victor Contoski

KOKOMU, Daniel Gilbert

MOXON'S MASTER, Ambrose Bierce

RENDEZVOUS 2062, Robert Frazier

REFLECTIONS ON THE LOOKING-GLASS, AN ESSAY, Alfred

Stewart

"Chess and fantastic fiction began an enthusiastic encounter with

each other at least as far back as Lewis Carroll, and the mating is still

in progress. Both contain strong elements of conflict and both are set in

worlds where time and space are subject to transformation; the

ordinary rules of human existence do not apply. Therefore both tend to

appeal to the same kind of mind; an interest in the fantastic is very

often a sign of interest in chess, and vice versa…"

Fred & Joan Saberhagen

Science Fiction and the "Game of Kings":

PAWN

TO INFINITY

Other science fiction and fantasy titles

by Fred Saberhagen available from Ace…

• BERSERKER

• BERSERKER MAN

• BERSERKER'S PLANET

• BROTHER ASSASSIN

• THE DRACULA TAPE

• EMPIRE OF THE EAST

• THE HOLMES DRACULA FILE

• LOVE CONQUERS ALL

• AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY

• SPECIMENS

• THORN

• THE ULTIMATE ENEMY

• THE VEILS OF AZLAROC

• A SPADEFUL OF SPACETIME (Edited by Fred Saberhagen)

• THE MAGIC MAY RETURN (Fred Saberhagen with Foul

Anderson & Mildred Downy Broxon, Dean Ing, Steven Barnes, and

Larry Niven. Edited by Larry Niven.)

PAWN

TO INFINITY

EDITED BY

FRED SABERHAGEN

WITH

JOAN SABERHAGEN

ace books

A Division of Charter Communications Inc.

A GROSSET & DUNLAP COMPANY

51 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10010

PAWN TO INFINITY

All characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual

persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

An ACE Book

First Ace printing: June 1982

Published Simultaneously in Canada

Manufactured in the United States of America

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

"The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton" by Gene Wolfe. ©

1977 Terry Carr; reprinted by permission of the author and his agent,

Virginia Kidd; first published in Universe 7, edited by Terry Carr.

Corporation, first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction

Magazine; March 13, 1982.

Inc., first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction,

Feb. 1954.

Publishing Company for Worlds of If Science Fiction; first published

in If, July-August 1974.

Publishing Company, Inc., first published in Amazing/Fantastic, Jan.

1982.

published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Feb. 1974.

Productions Corp.; first published in If, vol. 12 no. 6 Jan. 1963.

Press; first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

first published in Chess Review, April 1966.

in Pawn to Infinity, edited by Fred & Joan Saberhagen.

"Moxon's Master" by Ambrose Bierce. In the Public Domain.

"Rendezvous 2062" by Robert Frazier, first published in Fantasy

author.

"Reflections on the Looking-Glass, An Essay" by Alfred Stewart. ©

1982 Alfred Stewart: first published in Pawn to Infinity, edited by Fred

& Joan Saberhagen

INTRODUCTION

Chess and fantastic fiction (I use the term here to include science

fiction) began an enthusiastic encounter with each other at least as far

back as Lewis Carroll, and the mating is still in progress. Both contain

strong elements of conflict—Emanuel Lasker, one of the great players

of all time, defined chess as a struggle—and both are set in worlds

where time and space are subject to transformation, the ordinary rules

of human existence do not apply. Therefore both tend to appeal to the

same kind of mind; an interest in the fantastic is very often a sign of

interest in chess, and vice versa.

The games in the stories in this book are not always chess, if we

define chess by a certain precise set of rules, and configurations of

pieces which are to be moved on a flat board eight squares by eight.

But by Lasker's definition the fit is good, because each story in this

book recounts a struggle. The opponents are not always the humanity

we know, any more than the games are always literally the chess we

know, but a board game plays some essential part in each story, and in

each some conflict beyond gaming is to be resolved.

Getting this book done has been something of a struggle, too, at

times, though mostly it has been a lot of fun. We would like to thank

all those who have cooperated and offered suggestions, in particular

George R.R. Martin, and Ruth Berman and her friends Dennis Lein

and Joyce Muskat.

Start your clocks!

—Fred and Joan Saberhagen

THE MARVELOUS BRASS

CHESSPLAYING AUTOMATON

Gene Wolfe

Each day Lame Hans sits with his knees against the bars, playing

chess with the machine. Though I have seen the game often I have

never learned to play, but I watch them as I sweep. It is a beautiful

game, and Lame Hans has told me of its beginnings in the great ages

now past; for that reason I always feel a sympathy toward the little

pawns with their pencils and wrenches and plain clothing, each figure

representing many generations of those whose labor built the great

bishops that split the skys in the days of the old wars.

I feel pity for Lame Hans also. He talks to me when I bring his food,

and sometimes when I am cleaning the jail. Let me tell you his story,

as I have learned it in the many days since the police drew poor

Gretchen out and laid her in the dust of the street. Lame Hans would

never tell you himself—for all that big, bulging head his tongue is slow

and halting when he speaks of his own affairs.

It was last summer during the truce that the showman's cart was

driven into our village. For a month not a drop of rain had fallen; each

day at noon Father Karl rang the churchbells, and women went in to

pray for rain for their husbands' crops. After dark many of these same

women met to form lines and circles on the slopes of the Schlossberg,

the mountain that was once a great building. The lines and circles are

supposed to influence the Weatherwatchers, whose winking lights pass

so swiftly through the starry sky. For myself, I do not believe it. What

men ever made a machine that could see a few old women on the

mountainside at night?

So it was when the cart of Herr Heitzmann the mountebank came.

The sun was down, but the street still so hot that the dogs would not

bark for fear of fainting, and the dust rolled away from the wheels in

waves, like grain when foxes run through the fields.

This cart was shorter than a farm wagon, but very high, with such a

roof as a house has. The sides had been painted, and even I, who do

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PAWNTOINFINITYEditedbyFred&JoanSaberhagenCONTENTSINTRODUCTION,FredSaberhagenTHEMARVELOUSBRASSCHESSPLAYINGAUTOMATON,GeneWolfeUNICORNVARIATION,RogerZelaznyTHEIMMORTALGAME,PoulAndersonMIDNIGHTBYTHEMORPHYWATCH,FritzLeiberUNSOUNDVARIATIONS,GeorgeR.R.MartinAGAMEOFVLET,JoannaRussWITHOUTATHOUGHT,FredSaberha...

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