worlds. The research staff likes the last one. So do I.

What do you think? Alyonal II? If so, how about the price?

When could we afford that much? The staff also says that an

hundred Worldchange units could alter it to what we want in

5-6 centuries. Will forward costs of this machinery shortly.

Come live with me and be my love, in a place where there

are no walls....

Sanza

"One year," he replied, "and I'll buy you a world! Hurry up with thecosts of the machinery and transport...." When the figures arrived Jarrywept icy tears. One hundred machines, capable of altering the environment ofa world, plus twenty-eight thousand coldsleep bunkers, plus transportationcosts for the machinery and his people, plus...Too high! He did a rapidcalculation.

He spoke into the speech-tube:

"...Fifteen additional years is too long to wait, Pussycat. Have themfigure the time-span if we were to purchase only twenty Worldchange units.Love and kisses, Jarry."

During the days which followed, he stalked above his chamber, erect atfirst, then on all fours as his mood deepened.

"Approximately three thousand years," came the reply. "May your coat beever shiny--Sanza."

"Let's put it to a vote, Greeneyes," he said.

Quick, a world in 300 words or less! Picture this...

One land mass, really, containing three black and brackish lookingseas; gray plains and yellow plains and skies the color of dry sand; shallowforests with trees like mushrooms which have been swabbed with iodine; nomountains, just hills brown, yellow, white, lavender; green birds with wingslike parachutes, bills like sickles, feathers like oak leaves, an inside-outumbrella behind; six very distant moons, like spots before the eyes indaytime; grass like mustard in the moister valleys; mists like white fire onwindless mornings, albino serpents when the air's astir; radiating chasms,