Breakfast in the Ruins
Barry N. Malzberg
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed
in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people
or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2007 by Barry N. Malzberg. A much shorter version of this work appeared as The Engines of the Night, copyright © 1982 by Barry N. Malzberg.
A Baen Books Original
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ISBN 10: 1-4165-2117-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-4165-2117-4
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Malzberg, Barry N.
Breakfast in the ruins / by Barry N. Malzberg.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original."
Includes Engines of the night, originally published in
1982.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-4165-2117-8 (trade pbk.)
1. Science fiction--History and criticism. I. Malzberg,
Barry N. Engines of the night. II. Title.
PN3433.8.M33 2007
809.3'8762--dc22
2006101313
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright Information
The Engines of the Night, copyright © 1982, by Barry N. Malzberg
Grandson of L'Envoi, copyright © 2007, by Barry N. Malzberg
Interregnum, copyright © 2007, by Barry N. Malzberg
Rage, Pain, Alienation and Other Aspects of the Writing of Science Fiction, copyright © 1976, by Mercury Press, Inc.
Introduction to Meditations, copyright © 2007, by Barry N. Malzberg
On Engines Again, copyright © 1992, by Pulphouse Publications