《Lord of the Isles 》作者： - David Drake & David G. Hartwell

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LORD of the ISLES David Drake This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are eitherfictitious or are used fictitiously. LORD OF THE ISLES Copyright 1997 by David Drake All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in anyform. Edited by David G. Hartwell Endpaper map by Ed Gazsi A Tor Book Published by Tom Doherty Associates LLC. 175 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10010 Tor Books on the World Wide Web:http://www.tor.com Tor is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates Inc. Book design by Patrice Sheridan Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataDrake David. Lord of the Isles / David Drake edited by David G. Hartwell. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-312-85396-3 acid-free paperI. Hartwell David G. II. Title. PS3554.R196L67 1997 813.54—dc2197-5761 CIP First Edition: August 1997Printed in the United States of America David Drake has long been one of the foremost names in fantasy and science fiction adventure.For years a majority of his work has been in the popular military SF genre but his origins liein fantasy. He is widely respected for the detailed accuracy of his fiction: quotHe does homeworkintelligently his books are marked by factual research and then by insight into what thosefacts add up toquot says The Magazine of Fantasy amp Science Fiction. Now in Lord of the Isles Drake returns to fantasy with a towering and complex epic ofheroic adventure filled with passion and magic set in an extraordinary and colorful worldwhere the elemental forces that empower magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. quotDavid Drakes work here is original engrossing and instantly credible. After all thehackneyed repetitive fantasy Ive read recently Lord of the Isles seems quitewonderful.quot—Stephen R. Donaldson To Dan Breen My first reader and a striking example of how different very similar people can be. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Sandra Miesel helped a great deal with the microstructure. Tom Doherty and Harriet McDougalmade equally important suggestions regarding the macrostructure at the beginning and the end ofthe process respectively. In a different fashion the fact that I didnt have to revert to composing in longhand in themiddle of the novel is due to the efforts of Mark L. Van Name and Allyn Vogel. People who knowcomputers as intimately as Mark and Allyn do find my needs peculiar but they expended