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Bedlam's Edge


Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill are the biggest names in the urban fantasy subgenre-where elves, banshees, trolls, and even stranger creatures walk modern city streets, their presence, and even their existence unsuspected by the human inhabitants. Now these two present a volume of all new urban fantasy, with a stellar lineup of the best new fantasy writers, such as Roberta Gellis, Dave Freer and Eric Flint, Diana Paxton, and more-including two new stories and an afterword by Mercedes Lackey herself, as well as a story by Rosemary Edghill. This is an indispensable volume for fans of urban fantasy in general, and the thousands of fans of Mercedes Lackey in particular.

About the Authors

Mercedes Lackey is known for several bestselling fantasy series, including the Heralds of Valdemar and Bardic Voices series, work that ranges from historical fantasy to grittily realistic urban fantasy set in the modern world. In only a decade she has made her mark as one of the brightest stars of fantasy. She lives in Oklahoma where she can be found prying the talons of birds of prey she is attempting to nurse back to health out of her hands.

Rosemary Edghill, after holding the usual array of Weird Writer jobs, including freelance graphic designer and vampire killer, has settled down to a career as a full-time writer, publishing popular urban fantasies as well as novels in genres ranging from romance to mystery. Her latest book for Baen is The Warslayer.

Cover art by Bob Eggleton


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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.

First printing, August 2005

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN: 1-4165-0893-7

Copyright © 2005 by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill. All stories copyright © 2005 to individual authors.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original
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Production by Windhaven Press
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Electronic version by Baen Books
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AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:


"Devil Went Down to Georgia," copyright © 2005 by Mercedes Lackey

"Unleaving," copyright © 2005 by India Edghill

"Old Order," copyright © 2005 by Michael Longcor

"Well Met by Moonlight," copyright © 2005 by Diana L. Paxson

"The World's More Full of Weeping," copyright © 2005 by Rosemary Edghill

"The Waters and the Wild," copyright © 2005 by Mercedes Lackey

"The Remover of Difficulties," copyright © 2005 by Ashley McConnell
"Bright as Diamonds," copyright © 2005 by Barb Caffrey & Michael B. Caffrey

"Bottle of Djinn," copyright © 2005 by Roberta Gellis

"Red Fiddler," copyright © 2005 by Dave Freer & Eric Flint

"Unnatural History," copyright © 2005 by Sarah A. Hoyt

"All That Jazz," copyright © 2005 by Jenn Saint-John

"Six-Shooter," copyright © 2005 by Ellen Guon

"Mall Elves and How They Grew," copyright © 2005 by Mercedes Lackey

 

BAEN BOOKS by Mercedes Lackey

Bardic Voices:

The Lark and the Wren
The Robin and the Kestrel
The Eagle and the Nightingales

The Free Bards:

Four & Twenty Blackbirds
Bardic Choices: A Cast of Corbies
(with Josepha Sherman)

The Fire Rose
The Wizard of Karres
(with Eric Flint & Dave Freer)

Beyond World's End
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Spirits White as Lightning
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Mad Maudlin
(with Rosemary Edghill)

Bedlam's Edge
(edited with Rosemary Edghill)

Music to My Sorrow
(with Rosemary Edghill)
(forthcoming)

Bedlam's Bard
(with Ellen Guon)

Born to Run
(with Larry Dixon)

Wheels of Fire
(with Mark Shepherd)

Chrome Circle
(with Larry Dixon)

The Chrome Borne
(with Larry Dixon)

The Otherworld
(with Larry Dixon &
Mark Shepherd)

This Scepter'd Isle
(with Roberta Gellis)

Ill Met by Moonlight
(with Roberta Gellis)

Castle of Deception
(with Josepha Sherman)

Fortress of Frost and Fire
(with Ru Emerson)

Prison of Souls
(with Mark Shepherd)

Lammas Night
Werehunter
Fiddler Fair

Brain Ships
(with Anne McCaffrey &
Margaret Ball)

The Sword of Knowledge
(with C.J. Cherryh Leslie Fish,
& Nancy Asire)

The Shadow of the Lion
(with Eric Flint & Dave Freer)

This Rough Magic
(with Eric Flint & Dave Freer)

BAEN BOOKS by ROSEMARY EDGHILL

Warslayer

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