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First omnibus printing, February 2003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rosenberg, Joel, 1954тАУ

The guardians of the flame / by Joel Rosenberg
p. cm.
Contents: The sleeping dragonтАФThe sword and the chainтАФThe silver crown.
ISBN 0-7434-3589-3
1. Role playingтАФFiction. 2. Fantasy fiction, American. I. Title.

PS3568.O786 G83 2003
813'.54тАФdc21 2002034185

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The Sleeping Dragon

Vol. 1 of
The Guardians
of the Flame
For Felicia




Acknowledgments
 I want to thank the people who helped me through this: Allan Schmidt, who gave me the crazy idea in
the first place and helped to make the gaming aspects work; Cara Herman, who gave much needed
encouragement as I struggled through the first draft; Harry F. Leonard, who annoyed the hell out of me
by quibbling endlessly over minor flaws until I saw the light and corrected them, much to the betterment
of the story, if not my disposition; Robert Lee Thurston and Judith Heald, who gave me good criticism
and better friendship; Doug Kaufman, who put his money where his mouth was; Barry B. Longyear,
whose advice always helps when I'm wise enough to take it; Kim Tchang, who told me to relax and write
the damn thing; my agent, Cherry Weiner, whose help and support went beyond the call of duty; my
editor, Sheila Gilbert, who not only knew a good thing when she saw it, but knew how to make it better;
and the members of Haven: Deborah Atherton Davis, Mary Kittredge, Mark J. McGarry, and Kevin
O'Donnell, Jr., who gave this book the line-by-line, word-by-word examination and dissection that a first
novelist so desperately needs.

And, most particularly, I'd like to thank Robert Anson Heinlein, whose work has been both example and
inspiration, for Thorby, Colonel Baslim, Oscar Gordon, and so much more.