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THE FORTRESS OF GLASS
Book One of
The Crown of the Isles
by David Drake


This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

The Fortress of Glass
Copyright 2006 by David Drake

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions
thereof, in any form.

Cover art by Donato

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First Edition: April 2006
ISBN 0-7653-1259-X

Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 98-7132

Printed in the United States of America

DEDICATION
To Mark L. Van Name

Again, sort of.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Dan Breen continues as my first reader, just as careful and crotchety as ever.
He tends toward proper grammar (some might say pleonasm), and I tend toward
the striking ellipsis (sometimes more striking than intelligible), so we make
a good team.
Dorothy Day has been doing continuity checking for me on this on several
previous books. That is, I'll need to know the name of (to pick a real
example) Katchin the Miller's wife, and she'll tell me that it depends on
which book I choose. (I've needed a continuity checker longer than I've had
one.)
My webmaster, Karen Zimmerman, has a skill at finding data which goes beyond