"Jo Walton - Kings Peace 01 - The King's Peace" - читать интересную книгу автора (Walton Jo)

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This book is for the four people who lived with the story as it was being written, who
caught errors, made suggestions, and helped in their different ways to shape it as it grew.
Sasha Walton, my son the Jarnish partisan, for taking it for granted and being insistent.
Emmet O'Brien, for love, help, delight, and support all the time I was writing it. Hrolfr F.
Gertsen-Briand, my military adviser, for the hard work on detail he put into it, for
showing me how to do Caer Lind, and most especially for sharing the dream and showing
me there's more than one way of not being able to have it. Graydon, my nonunion muse,
without whom there would not only not be this but there would not be anything; for
always seeing clearly what was wrong and for being so awfully good at being himself.


This book also gained inestimably by being read in manuscript by Janet Kegg, my fairy
godmother, my aunt, Mary Lace, and Michael Grant.
I'd also like to thank Pamela Dean for inspiration, wise advice, reassurance, and
conversation about writing; Mary Lace for driving me to Oxford and Caerleon and other
helpful places; Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, for taking notice of it; and Jez Green,
Andrew Morris, Ken Walton, Helen Marsden, Steve Miller, Bil Bas, and Art Questor for
the inspiration that came out of a game.
For those to whom pronunciation of names is important, they have been rendered as
easy for an English speaker as possible. C and G are always hard (as in cat, gold), and all
letters should be pronounced as read. Doubtful vowels are more likely to be long than
otherwise. Ch is hard (as in Bach) except in Malmish names.
This is not our world, and this is not history. Anyone seeking information on the
history of Britain in the early Sixth Century would probably do well to start with John
Morris' The Age of Arthur, not an infallible book but a very readable one. From there I'd
highly recommend the wonderfully illuminating recent work of K. M. Dark, especially
Civitas to Kingdom and External Contacts. As far as primary sources go, many of them