Junction

GO TO HELL The hundred-eyed bird monster told Ned Wheeler that his foreordained quest must begin in Hell-which lay just beyond the borders of Junction, the tumultuous, bawdy, pious town that knew damnation as a daily experience and salvation as a distant hope. Ned's odyssey took him to a place stranger than Junction, stranger than Hell-the bizarre, unbelievable, dangerous city called New York. Its learned scientists told him of incredible things, like the laws of cause and effect and the fact that they had ceased to operate. It was as if the entire world were living in a chaotic dream-perhaps Ned Wheeler's dream... * A novella version of JUNCTIONwas published in Fantastic in November 1973. It was nominated for the 1974 Nebula Award and Locus Award Dann reworked this tale for some years through a number of drafts, publishing a further section entitled "Islands of Time" in Fantastic in September 1977. Finally the sections were combined with further material to form the full novel published in 1981.