title: Sanctuary : Thieves' world, Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn, Shadows of sanctuary
author: Robert Asprin
description: Nelson Doubleday hardcover with dust jacket. Published exclusively by and for the Science Fiction Book Club, first edition. SFBC #5138, 600 pages, cover art by Walter Valez. 8vo (8.5 x 5.75) This is the first and only hardcover edition. It collects the first three Thieves' World anthologies, originally published in paperback: Thieves' World, Tales From the Vulgar Unicorn, and Shadows of Sanctuary. Contains 22 stories of heroic fantasy including: The Gate of the Flying Knives, by Poul Anderson; Blood Brothers; by Joe Haldeman; Looking for Satan, by Vonda N. McIntyre; The Secret of the Blue Star, by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Myrtis, by Christine DeWees; The Price of Doing Business, by Robert Asprin; Shadowspawn, by Andrew J. Offutt; Shadow's Pawn, by Andrew J. Offutt; The Face of Chaos, by Lynn Abbey; Sentences of Death, by John Brunner; To Guard the Guardians, by Robert Asprin; Vashanka's Minion, by Janet Morris; The Dream of the Sorceress, by A. E. van Vogt; The Fruit of Enlibar, by Lynn Abbey; Goddess, by David Drake; Spiders of the Purple Mage, by Philip Jos Farmer; A Man and His God, by Janet Morris; Then Azyuna Danced, by Lynn Abbey; The Rhinoceros and the Unicorn, by Diana L. Paxson; The Vivisectionist, by Andrew J. Offutt; A Gift in Parting, by Robert Asprin; Ischade, by C. J. Cherryh. Also includes maps of Thieves' World, introductions, and essays. Not ex-library, not a remainder.
zlib_text: Thieves World #3
  
  Shadow Of Sanctuary
  
  Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin
  
  CONTENTS
  
  INTRODUCTION Robert Asprin LOOKING FOR SATAN Vonda N. Mclntyre ISCHADE
  C.J.Cherryh A GIFT IN PARTING Robert Asprin THE VIVISECTIONIST Andrew Offutt
  THE RHINOCEROS AND THE UNICORN Diana L. Paxson THEN AZYUNA DANCED Lynn Abbey A
  MAN AND HIS GOD Janet Morris ESSAY: THINGS THE EDITOR NEVER TOLD ME Lynn Abbey
  INTRODUCTION
  
  by Robert Asprin
  
  It was a slow night at the Vulgar Unicorn. Not slow in the sense that there
  had been no fights (there hadn't) or that there weren't many customers (there
  weren't) but rather a different kind of slow; the slow measured pace of a man
  on his way to the gallows, for the Unicorn was dying, as was the entire town
  of Sanctuary. More people were leaving every day and those left were becoming
  increasingly desperate and vicious as the economy dipped to new lows.
  
  Desperate people were dangerous; they were quick to turn predator at the
  smallest imagined opportunity, which in turn made th