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With her phenomenal Mage Winds trilogy, bestselling author Mercedes Lackey captivated fans across the country. Now in the first volume of the series sequel, she continues the same storyline, returning readers to a war-torn Valdemar in preparation to confront an ancient Eastern Empire--ruled by a monarch whose magical tactics by be beyond any sorcery known to the western ki...more

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Mar 19, 2013 Leiah rated it 3 of 5 stars

THIS IS AN AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: NOT A REVIEW OF THE BOOK ITSELF. The series is a 4.5 to me. The Audio by Ledoux? A 1. I gave a three rating because I love the books themselves, but this narrator is definitely NOT mmy cup of tea!
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First, please realize that I am a huge fan of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar tales. I started with The Last Herald Mage Trilogy in 1989 when the first came out and have them still on my bookshelves in paperback editions. I really enjoyed them, though my sigh...more

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Apr 10, 2012 Cara rated it 1 of 5 stars

I read once that Lackey's ambition is to be the most prolific writer of the 20th Century; it shows in this trilogy. The storyline is dull, as are the characters. Karal is generic in the first book and becomes increasingly perfect in the following books. Lackey has always had a tendency to create Mary Sue's for main characters; her best protagonist, Vanyel, is not entirely free of this fault. But Karal takes the cake for blandness. And the explanation for how Karse became Valdemar's ally is also...more

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Oct 04, 2010 Kathleen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, read-in-2010

The enemy in this book is the not!Roman Empire, but while they attack from the east, they are not the problem. Magic is going wonky all over the world. Luckily, Elspeth recently brought Darkwind, the Griffins, and Firesong to Valdemar to start training mages. Surely they well be able to work together with An'desha--formerly Mornlithe Falconsbane--and the young Karse cleric Karal to battle the mage storm that makes mage-work impossible, destroys the local weather, and changes plants and animals i...more

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Sep 29, 2010 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Valdemar Fans

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, novels

If you're trying to decide to buy this book, I think it comes down to two questions. If you're new to Lackey or the Valdemar books, should you start here? For me that's a decisive no. Go back and at try Arrows of the Queen, and if you like that, finish Talia's trilogy and move on to Elspeth's story beginning in Winds of Fate.

OK, so you've read those two trilogies? Then the question becomes, do you want to continue on and invest in this trilogy? I'd say yes. I didn't like this trilogy as much as...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Renee rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is my favorite trilogy, although as individual books I love Black Gryphon and Exile's Honor. The Storm trilogy comes late in the timeline, but has two wonderful plot threads running through it. The secondary thread is a commander of the Empire rebelling against his former masters and the Emperor trying to handle his antics along with the unrest at home. The main thread is a tentative alliance between age-old enemies Valdemar and Karse.

The canvas is broad, the cast is huge. The characters ar...more

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Feb 15, 2013 Riley Dawson rated it 3 of 5 stars

More of a 3.5 star book for me.

I really like Lackey's worldbuilding, and I love that much like Tamora Pierce (or maybe TP is more like her, who knows, I was exposed to Pierce first so I'm going with that) she sets multiple series in the same world. I like that. It means I can read a trilogy, I decide if I like the world and then I can just keep going and never leave. A lot of the characters here are your standards: the chosen one, the freaky guy that turns out to be awesome, the magical helper,...more

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Sep 01, 2010 Annikka rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy

Outside of Talia (Arrows of the Queen, Arrows Flight, Arrows Fall), I found I couldn't identify with most of the main protagonists of Ms. Lackey's novels until Karal came along. I could sympathize with his feelings of being an outsider in a place that was sometimes overtly and sometimes covertly hostile to him because of who he was. Heck, I felt that way growing up in high school. There were a few details in this novel that didn't quite match her earlier books, but the glaring timeline inconsist...more

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Jan 23, 2012 Rosa Aquafire rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm a big fan of the Valdemar books though I recognize their many weaknesses. I first read this book nearly fifteen years ago, so while I remembered the basic plot structure, some of the characters, and a scene here and there, a lot of it was practically new to me.

I found on reread that this was one of the less enjoyable books in the series. I really wasn't crazy about how long it took for anything to start happening. Compare the start of the Mage Storms -- over 100 pages of wandering in the cou...more I'm a big fan of the Valdemar books though I recognize their many weaknesses. I first read this book nearly fifteen years ago, so while I remembered the basic plot structure, some of the characters, and a scene here and there, a lot of it was practically new to me.

I found on reread that this was one of the less enjoyable books in the series. I really wasn't crazy about how long it took for anything to start happening. Compare the start of the Mage Storms -- over 100 pages of wandering in the countryside -- to the start of the Mage Winds, which picks up on both Elspeth and Darkwind in medias res before establishing their lifestyles that are about to change. It's about 200 pages into Storm Warning before anything dramatically solid happens. Karal himself takes a long time to become more than a generic lead. An'desha is definitely the more unique and compelling of the two characters, and his character arc is considerably stronger in this book. I think Misty could have benefited from splitting focus between the two of them more evenly, the way she did in Winds of Fate with Elspeth and Darkwind.

Once things pick up, though, it's easy to forgive the early boring stuff. The Mage Storms books are the culmination of everything that's been building since Arrows of the Queen. It all leads up to this, the event that we've been gathering people and resources together all along to stand against. And once the storms themselves arrive and start wrecking their havoc, it's pretty easy to fall into the rhythm of things and forget about how long and uneventful the first half of the book was.

I'd rate this 2.5 if we could, but I tend to go by the goodreads definition for each star rating, and my opinion does fall closer to "I liked it" than "it was okay." I really enjoyed the character of An'desha, Karal eventually endeared himself to me, and I enjoyed watching the cast of the earlier series, especially the Mage Winds characters, making their appearances here and there. I found myself really getting invested in the Firesong/An'desha relationship, too -- which, remembering mostly how that ends, is a bad move on my part. I hope that the next two books in the trilogy don't suffer from the same slooooooooow burn. I have a lot of tolerance for people sitting around talking, and this shit was still bananas.(less)

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Dec 16, 2012 Kirsten rated it 4 of 5 stars

Been a while since I've been in Valdemar (about 20 years, scarily enough). I enjoyed this series. The books go back and forth between Valdemar, Hardorn and the Empire and I tended to get caught up in what was going on Hardorn, skip over the Empire part so I could keep reading about Hardorn, then go back and fill in. Interesting developing relationships between Valdemar and Karse.

This isn't a series I would start with if you're new to the Valdemar universe. There are too many threads that might m...more

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Nov 06, 2012 Victoria rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-in-a-series, fantasy-science-fiction, valdemar

Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series provides one of the cornerstones of my reading history. After discovering her when quite young, I still follow new additions to the series - nearly twenty years later! I read and re-read these books over and over again throughout my youth, but I haven't re-read this series in its entirety in a long time - and never as an adult. There are some new books added to the series since the last time I read them, so this re-reading project is pretty exciting for me since...more Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar series provides one of the cornerstones of my reading history. After discovering her when quite young, I still follow new additions to the series - nearly twenty years later! I read and re-read these books over and over again throughout my youth, but I haven't re-read this series in its entirety in a long time - and never as an adult. There are some new books added to the series since the last time I read them, so this re-reading project is pretty exciting for me since it will include these new volumes, and will be in a new order. These books really just remind me of being young, reading them in the back seat of the car on family road trips... I think I was in 4th or 5th grade when I first started reading them, and they've always been a pleasure to re-read - and I am sure this will continue to be the case! The Valdemar series is broken up into (for the most part) separate trilogies. In my re-reading project, I am going to try to read them chronologically - not by publication date, but by their timeline within the series.

Because this is a later book in the Valdemar series, I have not re-read it as many times over the years. That may partly be due to the fact that this is one of Lackey’s more slower moving novels. The plot crawls along - largely because Karal, the new main character for this trilogy, a Karsian priest, simply isn’t as initially charming or sympathetic as Talia or Elspeth. Although, non-human characters, Altra and Florian, do help with that. And this time around, it certainly has not been a painful re-read, just not quite as absorbing as some of the previous books in the series. And I certainly do not feel as disappointed as I did the first time that I read this book - after waiting a while for the book to be published, I expected it to follow another female character. Plotwise, however, Lackey’s characters here face their most dire circumstances yet, which certainly adds a lot of excitement. It will be interesting to re-read the next book in the series, Storm Rising.(less)

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Jul 18, 2011 Bibliotropic rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: valdemar

Another rather dull synopsis from GoodReads, and something of a misleading one. Selenay isn't so much struggling to bring about an alliance with Karse as she already has one, as evidenced by the envoy, Ulrich, and his secretary, Karal, staying at the palace. Better to say that the story actually revolves around the Karsite envoy's secretary for the most part, while everybody tries to figure out what to do about Hardorn now that Ancar is dead and the Eastern Empire seems to be making a move towar...more Another rather dull synopsis from GoodReads, and something of a misleading one. Selenay isn't so much struggling to bring about an alliance with Karse as she already has one, as evidenced by the envoy, Ulrich, and his secretary, Karal, staying at the palace. Better to say that the story actually revolves around the Karsite envoy's secretary for the most part, while everybody tries to figure out what to do about Hardorn now that Ancar is dead and the Eastern Empire seems to be making a move toward them all.

Oh yes, and let's not forget that there are now catastrophic waves of magic circling the world, distorting the land and warping animals into rabid carnivorous monsters. Can't forget that.

This book was actually released about half a year after The Black Gryphon, which ties in well with this book, since while The Black Gryphon deals with the events leading up to the destruction of Ma'ar (we all remember him, don't we?) and the magical cataclysm that reshaped the world, Storm Warning deals with the temporal echoes of that cataclysm, the waves of magic coming back and doing ever-increasing damage.

The key to discovering all this, and a way to help keep some of the damage to a minimum, is hidden in An'desha's memories of Falconsbane and his previous incarnations, and understandably, delving into those memories is no easy task for someone who's terrified that merely having the memories at all is a sign that Falconsbane is still lurking in his mind. While An'desha does spend a good chunk of the book being rather whiny about the whole thing, I think some of that whininess and fear can be forgiven, even if it did make for annoying reading at times.

Through Karal, we get an insider's perspective on Karsites and Karsite religion, previous villified in just about all of the Valdemar novels. Mostly we get to see all this through comparisons, as now Solaris is the religious leader of the country and she's made some sweeping reforms. Or it might be more accurate to say "returns", since a lot of what Solaris did was take the religion back to its less terrifying and political roots, making the religion into what it apparently was supposed to have been for generations. It's through the now/then comparisons that we see what happens when power-hungry politicians control religion (and vice versa), an oppressive past regime versus a more lenient current regime.

Happily (at least from a reader's standpoint on realism), this didn't mean that everyone now views Karsites and inherently good. Generations of prejudice die hard on both sides of the border. The Valdemar novels are known somewhat for their idealism, but it's good to thrown in some nice sobering reality now and then. Keeps things believable, keeps people acting like people instead of actors in a moral play.

We also get to see another cultural perspective from Tremane's point of view as part of the Eastern Empire. The Empire is expansive and hard, but in its way, not really cruel or unjust. It takes over turbulent lands and brings order to them, brings employment and safety and security to the populace. Whether they want it or not. Hardorn's citizens, no matter how much they were beaten down by Ancar's regime, seem bound and determined to fight against the Eastern invasion of their land, to the point where it seems to make no sense to Duke Tremane. Isn't he offering them a chance to rebuild their homes and improve them? Isn't he bringing with them a better justice system that has proved well for other lands? It's a real treat to get to see so many variying cultural standpoints here, which of course thrills the amateur anthropologist in me.

Also interesting in this book is the attempt to apply the rules of physics to magic. I have a friend who disdains most fantasy because she says that magic is all too often used as a McGuffin. It can do anything, it has no rules attached to it, and it's entire unbelievable. (I always reply that she must be reading some truly crappy fantasy, because not all fantasy contains magic, and most of the stuff that does has clearly defined rules attached to it...) In Storm Warning, we get to see two opposing viewpoints, one stating that magic is entirely intuitive and its use is limited only by what the caster can imagine, and the other stating that magic must conform to the rules that the entire rest of the world has to go by, like physics. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that magic's real function is a mix of the two sides of the debate, but it was certainly nice to see Lackey lay down some really solid rules about how magic can and cannot work in relation to the more mundane aspects of the world.

This book loses a few marks for being very repetitive, however. Fascinating story, and Lackey does have something of a talent for being able to make characters essentially have the same discussion numerous times without it getting too boring, but there were times where it felt like all the recap discussions were little more than padding. Sometimes they brought something new and interesting to the mix, but other times it was entirely for the sake of characters catching up on what had happened, and could have been avoided and shortened by just stating that so-and-so gave a run-down of the situation to another character.

Still, a good beginning to what promises to be a very interesting trilogy. Magic and politics all rolled into one fascinating and multi-layered story, pieces of the familiar combined with the strange and new. It's classic Lackey work that explores her world in greater detail than ever before, fleshing out not only characters but an entire planet of people and cultures, that will leave you hungry for the next book. Highly recommended to Valdemar fans, though I recommend if you haven't already read the Mage Winds trilogy, do so before tackling this. Not doing so might leave you pretty confused as to who everyone is and what they're doing there in the first place.(less)

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Sep 24, 2007 Speedtribes rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, guilty-pleasures

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Well, I can say that I am torn between wanting to squish the main character Sun-priest Karal because he's the most cutest, befuddled thing evar. Or drooling and fangirling at the feet of Imperial Duke Tremane, heir potential to the Iron Throne.

I am torn!!

I think that Mercedes Lackey may have finally hit on something absolutely brilliant in all her books for the entirety of the Valdemar series-- and that's this lovely honorable-bad-guy role. I say bad guy, because Tremane comes from a country tha...more

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With her phenomenal Mage Winds trilogy, bestselling author Mercedes Lackey captivated fans across the country. Now in the first volume of the series sequel, she continues the same storyline, returning readers to a war-torn Valdemar in preparation to confront an ancient Eastern Empire--ruled by a monarch whose magical tactics by be beyond any sorcery known to the western kingdoms.

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Mar 14, 2013 Rowyn rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a 'review' for people who have read most of the Valdemar series.

I give it a 3 because for me personally I don't want to feel charitable to "The Enemy"! I have spent the entire series until now hating Karse and am not ready to have a story from 'their' point of view especially this kids. He just really annoys me. Maybe it's because his god is Vkandis and he is a priest. I really don't know but this trilogy is my least favorite in the Valdemar series.

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Feb 15, 2009 Dwer rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: f-sf

The first of a triology. An interesting story of magic and science, the interaction of different (magical) societies, not always smoothly, and their struggles to meet a potentially overwhelming physical challenge. The good guys are interesting and engaging. The real bady, as I said, is a thing, not people. But there are some bad guys as well. But even they are interesting, and I don't find them to be truely evil, just ruthless and ambitious.

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Oct 19, 2009 Tulara added it

I decided to re-read these books by Mercedes Lackey. I throughly enjoyed reading this book again. It's been so long since I read it, it was like meeting old friends. I read the book at a leisurely pace. The story begins with old enduring enemies trying to make a pact against a common super enemy. Although this book is part of an overall series, it stands well on its own if you've never read the other books. Highly recommend!

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Sep 06, 2012 Siobhan Parker rated it 3 of 5 stars

Before reading this, I was completely new to the writings of Mercedes Lackey, but I understood the story moderately well nonetheless. However, nothing about Storm Warning was particularly spectacular. The story was good, and the writing was adequate, but it just didn't have much "wow" factor. Unless some of Ms. Lackey's other novels are much better than this, I doubt she will join my list of favorite authors.

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Feb 29, 2012 Kirsten rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, heroic-fantasy, ebooks

One of my fave Valdemar trilogies, it takes place after the events of the Mage Winds series. It introduces the Eastern Empire, a vast area based on Ancient Rome, who has sent one of the competitors for the throne to annex Harorn. A new relationship with Valdemar's ancient enemy Karse is negotiated, and we see the return of Firesong and And'esha.

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Mar 30, 2008 tash rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: mercedes lackey lovers, fantasy lovers, people who want a quick good read

Shelves: multiple-rereads

i love how these books are so fun to read, and really enlightening on how people really act, with the awesome twists of magic and gods and such. the cat altra has got to be one of my favorite characters in this book. i just finished rereading it and loved every second of it. i find it much better than the winds series because i just hate the characters. in teh storms series the characters are all there but they are no where near as prominent. karal is an awesome character and pretty realistic, i...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Stephanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: awesome-read, want-to-read-again

I read this series a long time ago and enjoyed it immensely. Now that I'm reading it again, I find that I'm enjoying it just as much. The first books in the Valdemar Series (for me, anyway), The Arrows of The Queen, I own and love. They are Talia's story; these books are Karal's story. Both of them touch and inspire me.

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Dec 07, 2011 Jeremy Preacher rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

As much as I dislike the Mage Winds trilogy, I like the Mage Storms trilogy. Karal is a great viewpoint character - foreign enough to bring some interesting background and insight into the familiar Valdemar court, naive enough to grow and change in satisfying ways, but neither self-pitying nor ineffectual. Not all of the others are quite as successful, but in this book they pretty much don't come into play.

Just like Valdemar is an idealized fantasy of liberal politics, the "true" Vkandis faith i...more

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Nov 13, 2011 Gail rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

First story in Mage Storms—Karal comes to Valdemar from Karse as secretary for the new ambassador, his mentor Ulrich. He starts to learn about Valdemar and the mage storms. The Iron Emperor sends his potential heir to take over Hardorn. Lots of stuff going on.

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Aug 25, 2012 Erin Hughes rated it 5 of 5 stars

A great addition to the previous books that Mercedes Lackey has written. Lackey combines the characters from previous books to create an entirely new and unique book.
When Karse sends a envoy to Valdemar more than expected happens.

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Oct 02, 2012 Tim Greeley rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

Mercedes has created the fabulous world of Valdemar. It is chock full of Magic,mystery,romance,suspense. One of the best fantasy series I've ever read.

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Jan 18, 2012 Angie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Alright! Finally some answers as to why these storms created those crazy large creatures! I haven't been reading the Valdemar books in chronological order, but it really helps to read about the Mage Storms if you're getting confused at times about the crazy big animals and dangerous forests!

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Oct 18, 2010 Jenny rated it 2 of 5 stars

well? what did you expect? it's a mercedes lackey. the gay love thing is annoying. the young man who is the main character in this series is interesting.

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Mar 13, 2011 Becca R.G. rated it 3 of 5 stars

I try to ignore how undeveloped everyone and everything is and just enjoy the darn book. It mostly worked this time.

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Nov 14, 2010 Michele bookloverforever rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-series

PEACE BETWEEN VALDEMAR AND KARSITES?....FIND OUT HOW THE KARSITE RELIGION WAS REVOLUTIONIZED BY A WOMAN PRIEST.

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Jan 28, 2008 Andrea rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, science-fiction-fantasy

Lackey is one of my favorite authors ever! I started reading her in 8th grade but I will still pull out her books to reread them. Her character building is really her main strength – you want to meet her characters – which is probably why I always reach for her books as a pick-me-up, it’s like talking to old friends. Following the Valdemar timeline these books would come directly after the “Winds” trilogy. I love the main character in this book and the upcoming crisis that this trilogy deals wit...more

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Feb 04, 2011 B'mir rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy

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About Mercedes Lackey

Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her fantasy writing, she has written lyrics for and recorded nearly fifty songs for Firebird Arts &...more Mercedes entered this world on June 24, 1950, in Chicago, had a normal childhood and graduated from Purdue University in 1972. During the late 70's she worked as an artist's model and then went into the computer programming field, ending up with American Airlines in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to her fantasy writing, she has written lyrics for and recorded nearly fifty songs for Firebird Arts & Music, a small recording company specializing in science fiction folk music.

"I'm a storyteller; that's what I see as `my job.' My stories come out of my characters; how those characters would react to the given situation. Maybe that's why I get letters from readers as young as thirteen and as old as sixty-odd. One of the reasons I write song lyrics is because I see songs as a kind of `story pill' -- they reduce a story to the barest essentials or encapsulate a particular crucial moment in time. I frequently will write a lyric when I am attempting to get to the heart of a crucial scene; I find that when I have done so, the scene has become absolutely clear in my mind, and I can write exactly what I wanted to say. Another reason is because of the kind of novels I am writing: that is, fantasy, set in an other-world semi-medieval atmosphere. Music is very important to medieval peoples; bards are the chief newsbringers. When I write the `folk music' of these peoples, I am enriching my whole world, whether I actually use the song in the text or not.

"I began writing out of boredom; I continue out of addiction. I can't `not' write, and as a result I have no social life! I began writing fantasy because I love it, but I try to construct my fantasy worlds with all the care of a `high-tech' science fiction writer. I apply the principle of TANSTAAFL [`There ain't no such thing as free lunch', credited to Robert Heinlein) to magic, for instance; in my worlds, magic is paid for, and the cost to the magician is frequently a high one. I try to keep my world as solid and real as possible; people deal with stubborn pumps, bugs in the porridge, and love-lives that refuse to become untangled, right along with invading armies and evil magicians. And I try to make all of my characters, even the `evil magicians,' something more than flat stereotypes. Even evil magicians get up in the night and look for cookies, sometimes.

"I suppose that in everything I write I try to expound the creed I gave my character Diana Tregarde in Burning Water:

"There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good -- they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race."

Also known as Misty Lackey.

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