Cristopher Stasheff King Kobold Revived Warlock in Spite of Himself - 3
Christopher Stasheff
TO MY READERS
This isn’t a new book.
But it isn’t an old book, either.
Let me tell you how it happened…
Back in 1970, when
Unfortunately, I couldn’t ignore Lester del Rey. I had always admired his perspicacity and penetrating insight (i. e. , he always agreed with my opinion about new books. Please understand that, at the time, I had never met him. ). When
So, when the good people at Ace indicated an interest in reissuing
Please remember, I’d had twelve years to mull over the flaws of the original, and figure out how to fix them. There were some changes that I knew I definitely wanted to make, and quite a few others that I was thinking about.
So the book you hold in your hand is not the product of a publisher who tried to jazz things up to hype sales; it’s the result of a mulish writer who refused to go through having fans call him nasty names again. If you bought the original
Thank you all, for pestering your bookstores for
—Christopher Stasheff
Montclair State College
October 4,1983
Prologue
“Sorrowful it was, and great cause for Mourning, that so young a King should die, and that in his Bed; yet Death doth come to all, yea, the High and the lowly alike, and ‘tis not by our choosing, but by God’s. Thus is was that King Richard was taken from us in the fourteenth year of his Reign, though he had not yet seen forty-five summers; and great lamentation passed through the land. Yet must Life endure, and the motion of it never doth cease, so that we laid him to rest with his ancestors, and turned our faces toward our new Sovereign, his daughter Catharine, first Queen of that name to Reign, though it had been scarcely twenty years since her birth.