ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I owe many thanks to John Betancourt and Rob Reginald for publishing this revised edition through the Borgo Press imprint of Wildside Press. Certainly I owe Janine M. Smith gracious thanks for all of the work she put into producing the two maps that appear in this trilogy; she is my wife, I dearly love her, and she is my friend as well. Dr. Fred Adams, of course, I thank for his warm and erudite Preface. And I thank him as well as Joe Bonadonna, Tim Cole, Ted C. Rypel, Charles Saunders, David M. Stanley, and the others who have championed this trilogy over the years. Friends, here it is again!

The verse by Michael Fantina in Part Three, Chapter Twenty-One, appears through permission of the author.