This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright (c) 2001 by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN: 0-671-31955-8
Cover art by Stephen Hickman
First printing, January 2001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lackey, Mercedes.
Beyond world's end / by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-31955-8
1. Bards and bardism—Fiction. 2. Psychotropic drugs—Fiction. 3. New York
(N.Y.)—Fiction. 4. Magicians—Fiction. I. Edghill, Rosemary. II. Title.
PS3562.A246 B49 2001
813'.54—dc21 00-046736
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
To all the folks at the Arlington Pak-Mail, John Giardi, Amy Bombardieri, Stephanie Cole, and the divine Murphy (woof!), for last-minute copies, shipping, and cold wet noses far beyond the call of duty.
And to my esteemed co-authoress, who is as fond of elves as I am.
—Rosemary Edghill
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