In the canon
Waiting for the Barbarians
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1980
- Pages
- Pages 160
A frontier magistrate for an empire watches soldiers torture nomads in a war against barbarians who were never coming, and is tortured himself for objecting, left to watch the outpost decay.
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
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