Thorns

<b>From the back cover of the Ballantine first edition:</b> "Lona Kelvin - naive orphan. And at seventeen, mother of one hundred children. <p>Minner Burris - starman. Whose butchered body had been put together by aliens, with artificial and <i>alien</i> replacements. <p>Horror stalked just beneath the surface of these two lonely creatures. <p>Duncan Chalk - a vulture, carrion eater of other people's emotions, feeding on pain, fear, anger, hatred, jealousy, terror; typifying in the appetites of his vast body the sick delight that millions took in the tragedies he skillfully arranged. <p>Lona Kelvin - Minner Burris - Duncan Chalk - Surely the strangest triangle the worlds had ever seen."

Year	Award	Category	Status
1968	Hugo Award	Best Novel	Nominee/Finalist
1968	Nebula Award	Novel	Nominee/Finalist