Name of Father Ils, how I wish I’d had the idea for Thieves’ World to begin
with! Then I too could be rich and famous with a basement full of mailsacks and
get to exert the editor’s prerogative of writing the Afterword to Thieves’ World
# 7.
-Andrew Offutt
KY, USA
20 November 1984
(Note to Bob and Lynn: Try to get that Big Word in the last sentence spelled
right.)