Brust: Yes. In this one, he is paid an immense amount of money to kill an annoying, stuffy, pretentious historical novelist, but ends up doing the job for free, and, in the course of the book, he discovers he enjoys torture, and—
Paarfi: I believe this discussion is at an end.
Brust: Damn straight.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER
Copyright © 1994 by Steven Brust
All rights reserved.
An Orb Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
www.tor-forge.com
eISBN 9781429997324
First eBook Edition : May 2011
The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:
Brust, Steven.
Five hundred years after / Steven Brust. p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-312-85179-0
I. Title.
PS3552.R84F58 1994
813′.54—dc20
93-45291
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1966-1 (tpb.)
ISBN-10: 0-7653-1966-7 (tpb.)
First Hardcover Edition: April 1994
First Orb Edition: August 2009