Notes on The Dance of Gods

While they're not hotlinked to the text of the books in the best Wiki or Web 2.0 style, at least not yet, anyway, this page contains "director's (or writer's) commentary" on The Dance of Gods, on the occasion of re-reading and re-editing them after a long time away. Spoilers are pervasive, so if you're interested enough to read these notes, you've hopefully been interested enough to read the actual text first from this page. Be warned, but please feel welcome, too!

The original computer files for Catastrophe and Intrigue, at least, no longer being available, I've been scanning the manuscript (for Catastrophe) and the page proofs (for Intrigue) and using somewhat problematic OCR software to recreate the digital versions, before the editing pass. Still, I'm sure this process has been freshly minting typos that have eluded me thus far. (The OCR software has a lovely yet consistent tendency to read the 1986 dot-matrix "f" as "£", so I've probably found all of those, anyway.) That said, I'd appreciate hearing about any typos you notice while you're reading. Come to think of it, I'll credit you on the Typo page.

Notes on Spell of Catastrophe

SOC Chapter 1: "Max on the Road"

SOC Chapter 2: "The Creeping Sword"

SOC Chapter 3: "The Great Karlini's Problem"

SOC Chapter 4: "Shaa Out of Practice"

SOC Chapter 5: "Shop Talk"

SOC Chapter 6: "The Creeping Sword Stalks Again"

SOC Chapter 7: "Shaa Converses"

SOC Chapter 8: "Scientific Interlude"

SOC Chapter 9: "What I Didn't Know"

SOC Chapter 11: "The Curse of the Creeping Sword"

SOC Chapter 12: "Shaa and Mont Go to Jail"

SOC Chapter 13: "Max Drops In"

SOC Chapter 15: "Big Trouble"

SOC Chapter 18: "Repercussions"

SOC Chapter 19: "The Castle of Death"

SOC: The DAW Cover

SOI Chapter 1: "The World Already in Progress"

SOI Chapter 2: "A Crisis of Identity"

SOI Chapter 5: "Ice Cubes"

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