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The Unfinished City

by Martin Pearson

A fantasy of perfection and imperfection. A tale of a quaint city in the jungle and the curious fate that overtook a very clever thief who came there.

Illustration by Bok

There are two ways to enter Oo. One is by way of the Zoon, that narrow, deep river that runs through all the jungle continent of Ild-Chundarath and carries the craft from all the little nations and cities and unnumbered tribes that have their domain along its heavily overgrown banks. It is by way of Zoon that nearly everyone comes to the city, that the little moon-sailed vessels of Gul and Tindorion and Luul come floating down the turgid