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EMPIRE OF BONES

A Bantam Spectra Book / April 2002

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Copyright © 2002 by Liz Williams. Cover art copyright © 2002 by Mark Harrison.

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With thanks…

…Especially to Ashok and Bithika Banker and family, for welcoming us to Mumbai and being so
generous with both time and information (and for getting us to Varanasi)

… as ever, to Anne Groell and Shawna McCarthy for all their hard work, encouragement and help

… to everyone in the Montpellier Writing Group and Neville

Barnes

…to David Pringle, for accepting the original story for

Interzone

… to my parents and to Charles

… to everyone at the Shanti Guesthouse in Varanasi