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A BAD DAY FOR ALI BABA
Book Two of the Arabian Nights

By Craig Shaw Gardner
An Ace Book / published by arrangement with the author

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Ace edition / September 1992

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This one's for Dancing Girl
(This cha-cha's on me.)
 An Introduction,
in which we are once again ushered into the world of marvels.

Ah. Many of you have come back for another of our tales.

Those of you who were here before know of my compatriot's story of
the two Sinbads, full of marvels and dangers, but a tale in which all
comes right in the end. Yes, yes, dear fellow, except of course for that
unfortunate business with the Queen of the Apes. But that is all behind
you now, or so we shall all most fervently hope. You appear, quite
frankly, to be almost completely recovered.

But on with the business that brings us all here. Today I will tell you a
second tale, one filled with such wonders and terrors that it shall make