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Introduction

Vou are about to enter a fantasy world that belongs to Larry Niven.

Three years ago, Ace published THE MAGIC GOES AWAY, a beautifully illustrated book in which Larry
Niven told the story of the end of magic. As Sandra Miesel said in her Afterword to that book,
"Magic no longer exists in our world. But if, as all traditional cultures assert, it ever existed,


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then why has it disappeared? If magic vanished because its driving energy was depleted, what
caused the shortage? And above afl, how did people react to the crisis?"

to THE MAGIC GOES AWAY was tremendous. Headers If" -d what Larry Nfven did with fantasy, making it
as much a IB of ideas as the hard science fiction for which he Is justly i.. response this book was born.

"I have a proposition for you," said Jim Baen, then Ace's science fiction editor, to Larry Niven,
"I will do all of the work and you wID take all of the credit." Niven. of course, has been too
smart to believe a statement like that for more years than he might like to admit, but the project
was a good one. and it prospered. Several well-known science fiction and fantasy authors, admirers
of Niven and of THE MAGIC GOES AWAY, wrote their own stories in the universe that Niven had
created. Larry Niven read each story, and made suggestions from time to time, but each author
brought to the work his or her own magic, and each story is a unique achievement in its own right.
Then Alicia Austin added her magic, with illustrations that make it clear why she has won the Hugo
and World Fantasy Award.

Here is the result: THE MAGIC MAY RETURN. Original stories by Poul Anderson and Mildred Downey
Broxon, Steven Barnes, Dean Ing, Fred Saberhagen—and the original Larry Niven story about the
Warlock, "Not Long Before the End." as a refresher course in the nature of mana,

Enjoy.

IXjotLong

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