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    The Happy Unfortunate
    The Happy Unfortunate
    The Happy Unfortunate
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    The Happy Unfortunate

    By Robert Silverberg

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 15, 2012
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    Robert Silverberg

    <p>Robert Silverberg has won five Nebula Awards, four Hugo Awards, and the prestigious <em>Prix Apollo.</em> He is the author of more than one hundred science fiction and fantasy novels -- including the best-selling Lord Valentine trilogy and the classics <em>Dying Inside</em> and <em>A Time of Changes</em> -- and more than sixty nonfiction works. Among the sixty-plus anthologies he has edited are <em>Legends</em> and <em>Far Horizons,</em> which contain original short stories set in the most popular universe of Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, Orson Scott Card, and virtually every other bestselling fantasy and SF writer today. Mr. Silverberg's Majipoor Cycle, set on perhaps the grandest and greatest world ever imagined, is considered one of the jewels in the crown of speculative fiction.</p>

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      The Happy Unfortunate - Robert Silverberg

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Happy Unfortunate, by Robert Silverberg

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      Title: The Happy Unfortunate

      Author: Robert Silverberg

      Release Date: April 10, 2008 [EBook #25035]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HAPPY UNFORTUNATE ***

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      THE

      HAPPY

      UNFORTUNATE

      By ROBERT SILVERBERG

      Dekker, back from space, found great physical changes in the people of Earth; changes that would have horrified him five years before. But now, he wanted to be like the rest—even if he had to lose an eye and both ears to do it.

      Rolf Dekker stared incredulously at the slim, handsome young Earther who was approaching the steps of Rolf's tumbling-down Spacertown shack. He's got no ears, Rolf noted in unbelief. After five years in space, Rolf had come home to a strangely-altered world, and he found it hard to accept.

      Another Earther appeared. This one was about the same size, and gave the same impression of fragility. This one had ears, all right—and a pair of gleaming, two-inch horns on his forehead as well. I'll be eternally roasted, Rolf thought. Now I've seen everything.

      Both Earthers were dressed in neat, gold-inlaid green tunics, costumes which looked terribly out of place amid the filth of Spacertown, and their hair was dyed a light green to match.

      He had been scrutinizing them for several moments before they became aware of him. They both spotted him at once and the one with no ears turned to his companion and whispered something. Rolf, leaning forward, strained to hear.

      ... beautiful, isn't he? That's the biggest one I've seen!

      Come over here, won't you? the horned one called, in a soft, gentle voice which contrasted oddly with the raucous bellowing Rolf had been accustomed to hearing in space. We'd like to talk to you.

      Just then Kanaday emerged from the door of the shack and limped down to the staircase.

      The doctor refused to change Dekker, so Dekker was going to change the doctor.

      Hey, Rolf! he called. Leave those things alone!

      Let me find out what they want first, huh?

      Can't be any good, whatever it is, Kanaday growled. Tell them to get out of here before I throw them back to wherever they came from. And make it fast.

      The two Earthers looked at each other uneasily. Rolf walked toward them.

      He doesn't like Earthers, that's all, Rolf explained. But he won't do anything but yell.

      Kanaday spat in disgust, turned, and limped back inside the shack.

      I didn't know you were wearing horns, Rolf said.

      The Earther flushed. New style, he said. Very expensive.

      Oh, Rolf said. "I'm new

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