A Dusk of Demons
Wild Jack
Empty World
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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This Aladdin paperback edition May 2015
In the Beginning text copyright © 1973 by John Christopher
Previously titled Dom and Va
“In the Beginning” short story text copyright © 1982 by Longman Inc.
Cover illustration copyright © 2015 by Anton Petrov
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Cover designed by Karin Paprocki
Interior designed by Hilary Zarycky
The text of this book was set in Venetian 301.
Library of Congress Control Number 2015932392
ISBN 978-1-4814-2004-4 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4814-2003-7 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4814-2005-1 (eBook)
In the Beginning Page 16
