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The Water of Thought

Boris Brazil #2 / 2
by Fred Saberhagen
The Water of Thought (Boris Brazil #2) by Fred Saberhagen
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Heavily revised 1981.

One explorer had already disappeared on th primitive planet, Kappa. So the day that a second Terrestrial, Jones, ran away after drinking the sacret Kappan water that he had coerced the natives into giving him, the remaining planetologists meant to find out just what was going on.

Questioning the aliens only deepened the mystery. Foir they said that what Jones had drunk would enable him to communicate with his animal ancestors. It was their most precious and sacred possession.

But how couls it affect a person never born on kappa, a person without such "animal" ancestors? What had really happened to Jones and the other man – and what would happen if either of them managed to bring this incredible liquid back to Earth?

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Release date: 1965

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Fred Saberhagen

Fred Saberhagen

Fred Thomas Saberhagen (1930–2007) was a Chicago-born American science fiction and fantasy fiction author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction stories.

He also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the vampires (including the famous Dracula) are the protagonists, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels. Saberhagen died of cancer, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Boris Brazil

Boris Brazil consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

The Golden People (Boris Brazil #1)
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The Water of Thought (Boris Brazil #2)
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