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    Witch of the Demon Seas: With linked Table of Contents
    Witch of the Demon Seas: With linked Table of Contents
    Witch of the Demon Seas: With linked Table of Contents
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    Witch of the Demon Seas: With linked Table of Contents

    By Poul Anderson

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    He wondered, with a brief giddiness, if the dark witch before him could be as evil as her enemies said. Strong and ruthless, yes—but so was he. When he learned the full truth about her soaring plans, he might even decide they were right.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateOct 20, 2016
    ISBN9781682995235
    Witch of the Demon Seas: With linked Table of Contents
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    Poul Anderson

    Poul Anderson (1926–2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his “hard” science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and “fantasy with rivets,” he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he has received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or “Wanderer,” Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 1952 he met Karen Kruse; they married in Berkeley, California, where their daughter, Astrid, was born, and they later lived in Orinda, California. Astrid and her husband, science fiction author Greg Bear, now live with their family outside Seattle.

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      Witch of the Demon Seas - Poul Anderson

      Witch of the Demon Seas

      Poul Anderson

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

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

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 13:978-1-68299-523-5

      Table of Contents

      I

      II

      III

      Witch of the Demon Seas

      I

      Khroivian the Conqueror, Thalassocrat of Achaera, stood watching his guards bring up the captured pirates. He was a huge man, his hair and square-cut beard jet-black despite middle age, the strength of his warlike youth still in his powerful limbs. He wore a plain white tunic and purple-trimmed cloak; the only sign of kingship was the golden chaplet on his head and the signet ring on one finger. In the gaudy crowd of slender, chattering courtiers, he stood out with a brutal contrast.

      So they’ve finally captured him, he rumbled. So we’re finally rid of Corun and his sea-going bandits. Maybe now the land will have some peace.

      What will you do with them, sire? asked Shorzon the Sorcerer. Khroman shrugged heavy shoulders. I don’t know. Pirates are usually fed to the erinyes at the games, I suppose, but Corun deserves something special.

      Public torture, perhaps, sire? It could be stretched over many days.

      No, you fool! Corun was the bravest enemy Achaera ever had. He deserves an honorable death and a decent tomb. Not that it matters much, but—

      Shorzon exchanged a glance with Chryseis, then looked back toward the approaching procession.

      *

      The city Tauros was built around a semicircular bay, a huge expanse of clear green water on whose surface floated ships from halfway round the world—the greatest harbor for none knew how many empty sea-leagues, capital of Achaera which, with its trade and its empire of entire archipelagoes,

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