"Williams, Tad - Shadowmarch" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williams Tad)

Sheila have been my editors and partners-in-crime
since I started on this wild book-writing endeavor

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twenty years ago, and the more years that pass, the
more I come to realize what a great gift that has been
and how lucky I am. Thanks, guys. We've had fun,
huh?


Last but not least, I must also mention that this
particular book owes a huge debt of gratitude and
inspiration to all the mad, wonderful folk on the
Shadowmarch.com bulletin board, a repository of
wisdom, support, silliness, and recipes for rhubarb like
no other. Thanks for Shadowmarch (the online
project) are especially due to Josh Milligan and the
incomparable Matt Dusek, the latter still helming the
site as Tech Wizard in Residence. I hope many of you
new readers will come and join us - I spend a lot of
time kibitzing on the board there, and I'd enjoying
meeting you.




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 Author's Note
For those who wish to feel securely grounded in the
Who, What, and Where of things, there are several
maps and, at the end of the book, indexes of
characters and places and other important materials.


The maps have been complied from an exhaustive
array of traveler's tales, nearly illegible old documents,
transcripts of oracular utterances, and the murmunngs
of dying hermits, not to mention the contents of an
ancient box of land -office records discovered at a
Syannese flea market. A similarly arcane and
wearying process was responsible for the creation of
the indexes. Use them well, remembering that many
have died, or at least seriously damaged their vision
and scholarly reputations, to make these aids
available to you, the reader.




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