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THE MAZE IN THE MIRRORTHE MAZE IN THE MIRROR

Copyright й 1989 by Jack L. Chalker
ebook ver. 1.0

From Williamson to Leinster to Piper . . .
H. Beam Piper, who perfected it and to whom this book
is affectionately dedicated.
I feel honored that you all,
at some point in my life,
called me friend

Some Warnings for the Reader

This book is the third in a series featuring my two parallel worlds detectives
Sam and Brandy Horowitz in the universes of G.O.D., Inc. Like the first two, The
Labyrinth of Dreams and The Shadow Dancers, both Tor, 1987, it is a complete
novel, as all good series novels are. It is not, strictly speaking, a serial
continued from book to book, as are many other of my works. However, the time
frame on these books is progressive; this book is set considerably after the
time of the first two and the characters are the older, more knowledgeable, more
experienced characters who have undergone those previous cases and remember them
and assume you do, too. Also, one of our villains this time is a leftover
deliberately loose end from The Shadow Dancers, and the solution to the case of
the Maze in the Mirror is, in many ways, also a final solution to the
progression and loose ends of the first two books.
As such, while sufficient information is provided for you to read this book as
complete and independent of the others, I have made no other concessions and
some of the references and background might be a bit vague or confusing for a
new reader, as they are not explained but rather taken for granted. For that
reason, The Maze in the Mirror will be best appreciated by those who have read
either or preferably both of the preceding books. This is particularly true
since, while there is an element of mystery involved, this series is basically
a* set of private detective procedurals-that is, figuring out by legwork,
evidence, and deduction just what the dastardly plot is here and how to prevent
it is the object, not necessarily unmasking some unknown murderer, even though
unknown murderer there might be. I make that comment in light of some reviews of
the earlier books which were under the mistaken impression that these were
primarily whodunits and who therefore reviewed the whodunit rather than the
plot-and the two are not the same thing in a procedural.
Your bookstore should have the first two books if you do not. Any good,
well-managed bookstore run by intelligent owners of good taste should have all
my previous novels on their shelves. If not, then buy this one so you'll have it
and then order the first two from that store or find a better bookstore who
keeps the essentials in stock.
To forestall a bunch of letters to me complaining that there are real
anachronisms when the earlier novels are compared to this one, I should point
out that nowhere have I stated that Sam and Brandy are natives of our own
universe, just one that's rather close to ours.
Also, I want to reassure all of you out there that General Ordering and