Shadowrise

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DAW Books Presents
The Finest in Imaginative Fiction by
TAD WILLIAMS

 

SHADOWMARCH
SHADOWPLAY
SHADOWRISE
SHADOWHEART*

 

TAILCHASER’S SONG

 

THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS

 

MEMORY, SORROW, AND THORN
THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR
STONE OF FAREWELL
TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER

 

OTHERLAND
CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW
RIVER OF BLUE FIRE
MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS
SEA OF SILVER LIGHT

 

 

 

*Coming November 2010 from DAW Books

Copyright © 2010 by Tad Williams.

All Rights Reserved.

eISBN : 978-1-101-45803-7

DAW Book Collectors No. 1500.

 

DAW Books are distributed by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

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First printing, March 2010

 

 

Like the first two volumes,
Shadowrise
is dedicated to our children Connor Williams and Devon Beale, who continue to oppress me with a mighty, mighty love. They are the two coolest kids in the world.

Thanks as always to my editors Betsy Wollheim and Sheila Gilbert and everyone else at DAW Books, to my wonderful wife Deborah Beale and to our wonderful assistant Dena Chavez and my crafty agent Matt Bialer. Also many thanks to Lisa Tveit, who has been a hero managing our Web site,
www.tadwilliams.com
. Please come and join us there. It’s fun and the side effects are largely harmless.

 

Nobody since Dorothy first landed in Oz has been surrounded with as many magical people as I am every day, and I am profoundly grateful for that.

Shadowrise
was originally meant to be the final volume of the Shadowmarch trilogy. My profound uneasiness with planning and my inability to count beyond the span of my fingers and toes led me to err once again: when I reached the fifteen-hundred-page point of the manuscript, I realized this last volume would have to be split into two parts.