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Before & Beyond
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Cover design by Darcy Douglas
ISBN: 1-894841-76-X
First Edition eBook Publication August 22, 2002

Before & Beyond
Patrick Welch

Introduction
I volunteered to write this preamble for no other reason than I love the fiction of Patrick Welch. It really
is that simple.

I met Pat quite some time back, on the Jackhammer bulletin board. We both had stories that month in
Titan Ezine. I had posted a message to the Jackhammer board about my piece. Patrick responded by
saying (and I'm paraphrasing here), "You shouldn't toot your own horn like that in public. It's not polite.
Allow me to do it instead." He proceeded to tell everyone how much he liked my story and mentioned
his work as well.

Off I surfed to Titan to read the first Patrick Welch story in a long list of titles... The Ganymede Incident.
Immediately I was struck by three points that would continuously assail me about Pat's work each and
every time I encountered it.

First, I liked his style. Second, I enjoyed his mind (twisted as it was). And third, I was reading the work
of a man who would one day enjoy a much larger audience.

Patrick Welch became my favorite web author, after reading the first Westchester Station excerpt, when
it appeared in Jackhammer. I loved the feel of the piece. His work etched itself even deeper into my
admiration, when I read my first Brendell story in Eternity Online.

But it wasn't until I read his book The Thirteenth Magician that I really appreciated the true scope of his
genius. It was that book and his Westchester Station stories that propelled me to write these words.

Patrick Welch, over the years, has become a friend. His humor and his intelligence have added to my
enjoyment of life on the web, even if he did heckle me at my first Cybling Chat. His easygoing nature