"The Prince of Roum gave me more pleasure than anyone else, but he was cruel." Teratogenic heralds bellowed "make way for the Prince of Roum!"
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2The heralds were teratogenic? You mean they caused developmental anomalies? How did they do that? They were radioactive, or they exuded chemicals, or what?– user14111Commented Aug 13 at 1:28
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Their vocal capabilities had been amplified. They are human loudspeakers.– Richard TibbittsCommented Aug 13 at 5:06
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3And that makes them teratogenic? Pregnant women who hear their amplified voices give birth to deformed children?– user14111Commented Aug 13 at 6:46
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They had been altered in shape and function. They were squat and broad, and their voices were extremely loud. They themselves were not teratogenic, but they had been created, I suppose, by teratogenic means.– Richard TibbittsCommented Aug 14 at 7:12
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"Make way for the Prince of Roum!" is a quote from Robert Silverberg's Nightwings.
So is "The Prince of Roum gave me greater pleasure of the body than I had ever known before, but he is cold and cruel..."
Given the sparseness of the question, there is not much more to say.
The novella can be read on Archive.org; it was later fixed-up with two sequels into a novel.
answered Aug 13 at 1:10
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2Unaccepted answer to scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/233271/… and scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/79158/… Commented Aug 13 at 15:22