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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