Thieves World 4 – Storm Season by Asprin, Robert

Thieves’ World Book #04

Storm Season

Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin

EDITOR’S NOTE

Those who have followed the first three volumes of THIEVES’ WORLD are already

aware that facts vary and contradict one another depending upon the character

viewing or narrating an event. This fourth volume will be a bit more difficult

to follow because of time-sequencing. While in the earlier volumes I have tried

to keep the stories in the order in which they occur, this has proved to be

impossible in STORM SEASON. The length of time covered by some of these tales is

significant, causing the events to overlap or, in some cases, to occur within

other stories. Rather than try to cut and splice the stories into a smooth

chronology, I’ve left it to the reader to understand what is happening and

construct his/her mental timeline as necessary. Just rest assured that all the

stories herein occur between the end of SHADOWS OF SANCTUARY and the end of

the STORM SEASON.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Exercise in Pain Robert Lynn Asprin

Downwind C. J. Cherryh

A Fugitive Art Diana L. Paxson

Steel Lynn Abbey

Wizard Weather Janet Morris

Godson Andrew J. Offutt

Epilog

Introduction

Robert Lynn Asprin

It had been a long time since Hakiem, Sanctuary’s oldest storyteller, had

visited that section of town known only as the Fisherman’s Quarters, but he

still knew the way. Not much had changed: the stalls with their flimsy awnings

to keep the sun off the day’s catch; the boats bottom up along the pier and, on

the beach, a few nets hung for drying and mending. All was the same-only more