East Winslow, Maine November 18, 1998
OUR NOVELS Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, and Carpe Diem, haven’t been on the SF best-seller list, but they have reached a very persistent group of readers, many of them on the Internet.
When we got on the ’net ourselves, our readers let themselves be known.
“When,” they asked “will there be something else in the Liaden Universe?”
This year, like last, lacks a Liaden novel. Next year, in February l999, comes our novel Plan B from Meisha Merlin. Still, our readers have asked for something for this holiday season, something Liaden. We hear you, and read our email. Hence, Fellow Travelers.
In l995 we brought you Two Tales of Korval, stories written as we were defining the Liaden Universe. To Cut an Edge and A Day at the Races both dealt with recent Korval family history.
The first two stories here also were part of our defining of the Liaden Universe, but these are set centuries before the core novels. These stories, Where the Goddess Sends and A Spell for the Lost deal with the role of magic in a world where technology is slowly being rediscovered. The third story— Moonphase—was originally not written for publication, but for our own understanding of Priscilla Mendoza, an active character in the later books But a story once written takes on its own life and necessity, and this story, too, is here.
Thanks to you, the Liaden Universe keeps growing.
—Sharon Lee amp; Steve Miller