A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire

 

It seemed like a good idea; even a noble experiment.
But the outcome was sheer hell.

When the Balduin brothers escaped from the tedium of the human hive of Atlanta, Georgia, they had a mission.  They were to voyage to the planet Trope.  Contact a tribe there known as the Ouemartsee.  And transport it to Glaparca for a useful purpose.

But suddenly the Balduin brothers discovered that they were in the slavetrade, and that the Ouemartsee had made one of them a God . . . !
[From the cover of the Ballantine edition]

Dedication:
This book, the first one, is for my mother

 
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, First Edition / Gene Szafran

New York: Ballantine
[ISBN 345-24350-1-150] [pb] ($1.50),
Feb 1975; 294 pp.
[cover: Gene Szafran]
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, 1st French Edition / Odile de Schwilgué [as Le bassin des coeurs indigo]
[French translation by Tristan Murail]

Paris: Editions Jean-Claude Lattès
[no ISBN] [trade pb] (price?),
Mar 1977; 301 pp.
[cover: Odile de Schwilgué]
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, 1st Britist Edition / Melvyn Grant London: Sphere
[ISBN 0-7221-1684-5] [pb] (95p),
Apr 1978; 294 pp.
[cover: Melvyn Grant]
A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire, 1st German Edition / Franz Berthold [as Flammenaugen]
[German translation by Hans Maeter]

Munich: Heyne (#3844)
[ISBN: 3-453-30773-9] [pb] (DM 6.80),
Nov 1981; 288 pp.
[cover: Franz Berthold]

 
Notes:

A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire was rewritten and published as Eyes of Fire [author's alternate title: The Isohet].  The Kersosina edition of the rewritten version restores the original title.

A Little Knowledge and Catacomb Years form the Urban Nucleus of Atlanta [UrNu] sequence.  A Funeral for the Eyes of Fire and Under Heaven's Bridge are tangential to this series.



Compiled by Michael H. Hutchins