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Eye of Cat by Zelazny, Roger is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A retired hunter of alien zoo specimens, William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo on a future Earth, has come to what he sees as the end of his life. The World Government calls upon him for aid in protecting an alien diplomat from a powerful and hostile member of his own species. Knowing both the importance of the task and his inability to handle it on his own, Singer goes to confront his greatest conquest with a strange bargain. A shape-shifting alien, the last of his species, sits in a special cage at an institute dedicated to the study of extraterrestrial beings. Most frequently he projects the aspect of a one-eyed catlike creature, but he can appear as almost anything. One of Singers secrets, and his greatest guilt, is his suspicion that the creature is intelligent. He confronts him and offers his own life for Cats cooperation in saving the alien. Cat accepts, and later, their mission fulfilled, demands a refinement on the original bargain. Rather than a simple death he wants a return bouta chase with Singer as the hunted rather than the hunter. The gods, powers and monsters of Navajo legend provide the backdrop for the working out of Singers fatefor the chase is as much for

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Author
Zelazny, Roger
Publisher
New York: Timescape Books: Distributed by Simon and Schuster
Published
1982
Language
EN
ISBN
9780671255190
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science
Rating
3.64 / 5 (1,322 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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