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THE LAST ARABIAN NIGHT
Book Three of the Arabian Nights

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

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Ace edition / April 1993

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This one's for Barbara,
with no excuses.
 The Prologue,
in which we manage to simultaneously reiterate
certain points of difficulty,
while once again starting anew.

Then it is my turn?

I will tell you therefore a story of life and death, of dreams unforetold
and places no able man has ever seen. My tale shall hold within its
bounds the hidden secrets of beasts and the true nature of men, and it
shall range from the distant day before there was a Baghdad to a time
far after every one of us is gone from this earth, and ifrits and magicians
are thought of as nothing more than childish fantasies.