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Thieves' World Book #04
Storm Season

Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin



EDITOR'S NOTE

Those who have followed the first three volumes of THIEVES' WORLD are already
aware that facts vary and contradict one another depending upon the character
viewing or narrating an event. This fourth volume will be a bit more difficult
to follow because of time-sequencing. While in the earlier volumes I have tried
to keep the stories in the order in which they occur, this has proved to be
impossible in STORM SEASON. The length of time covered by some of these tales is
significant, causing the events to overlap or, in some cases, to occur within
other stories. Rather than try to cut and splice the stories into a smooth
chronology, I've left it to the reader to understand what is happening and
construct his/her mental timeline as necessary. Just rest assured that all the
stories herein occur between the end of SHADOWS OF SANCTUARY and the end of
the STORM SEASON.



Table of Contents

Introduction

Exercise in Pain Robert Lynn Asprin
Downwind C. J. Cherryh
A Fugitive Art Diana L. Paxson
Steel Lynn Abbey
Wizard Weather Janet Morris
Godson Andrew J. Offutt

Epilog



Introduction

Robert Lynn Asprin

It had been a long time since Hakiem, Sanctuary's oldest storyteller, had
visited that section of town known only as the Fisherman's Quarters, but he
still knew the way. Not much had changed: the stalls with their flimsy awnings
to keep the sun off the day's catch; the boats bottom up along the pier and, on
the beach, a few nets hung for drying and mending. All was the same-only more
faded and worn-like the people... like the rest of the town.