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THE OTHER SINBAD
Book One of the Arabian Nights

by Craig Shaw Gardner
An Ace Book / published by arrangement with the author

PRINTING HISTORY
Ace edition / November 1991

All rights reserved. Copyright © 1991 by Craig Shaw Gardner.

Cover art by Darrell Sweet.

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 TO FLO-

Who nursed me back . . .
 An Introduction.,
in which the true nature of the story is first revealed.

Ah. Let me tell you a story, then, about a time very long ago, or
perhaps only yesterday; and a place that never was, but will always be.

It was (and is) a city, but not any city, no glorified village nor swollen
township, but the most magnificent of metropolises, so far across that a
horse at full gallop would take three whole days to circle its walls. And
within those walls stands far more than a collection of mud huts and
stone hovels, for a hundred times a hundred multicolored towers reach
up to caress the clouds, and the avenues at the city's center are so
broad that forty strong men striding shoulder to shoulder might walk