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to Herbert H. Brin

Poet/ journalist/ and

Melons champion of justice

BRIGHTNESS REEF

A Bantam Spectra Book

PUBLISHING HISTORY

Bantam hardcover edition / October 1995

Bantam mass market edition / November 1996

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a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 95-17601.

ISBN 0-553-57330-6 Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada