Cinnabar Author:Edward Bryant COME TO CINNABAR, THE CITY AT THE CENTER OF TIME. — Where the turbulent timestream cascades into a multidimensional vortex, there lies CINNABAR, an opalescent dream city as near as memory or as far as the future, just minutes or millennia, leagues or light years away. — Here dwell the shining immortals: Cougar Lou Landis, t... more »he last hero, who stalks dreams across the sands of Cinnabar. Jade Blue, the soft-furred catmother who mourns her lost mind-kittens. Sensuous sex star Tourmaline Hayes and her sometimes-lover Timmath Obregon, a not-quite mad scientist who tampers with time ...
Cinnabar is a collection of short stories with a common setting and overlapping sets of characters. The common setting is Cinnabar, the City at the Centre of Time. Bryant's short stories generally appeared in Omni periodicals, and this compilation has the stories dealing specifically with the Cinnabar setting.
Eight fantastic stories, located in the city of Cinnabar at the center of time, involve such unusual characters as a network sex star, a mad computer, and a hybrid catmother.« less