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Table of Contents:

• 1 - Andre Norton: Beyond the Siege Perilous (Moonsinger's Friends) - essay by Susan Shwartz
• 16 - Sea Wrack - novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 42 - Lior and the Sea - novelette by Diane Duane
• 74 - The Pale Girl, the Dark Mage, and the Green Sea - short story by Tanith Lee
• 80 - The Forest - novelette by Poul Anderson
• 112 - The Shadow Hart - short story by Sandra Miesel
• 122 - The Woman Who Loved Reindeer - novelette by Meredith Ann Pierce
• 157 - The Price of Lightning - novelette by Jayge Carr
• 183 - Bright-Eyed Black Pony - short story by Nancy Springer
• 201 - A Flock of Geese - short story by Anne McCaffrey
• 217 - Of Law and Magic - novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• 246 - Team Venture - novelette by Jo Clayton
• 278 - Sky Sister - short story by Diana L. Paxson
• 298 - Defender of the Faith - short story by Judith Tarr
• 314 - Catalyst - short story by Katherine Kurtz
• 327 - The Foxwife - short story by Jane Yolen
• 336 - An Open Letter to Andre Norton (Moonsinger's Friends) - essay by Joan D. Vinge

At the time of the Moon of Three Rings, the galactic trade ship Lydis lands on the planet Yiktor. On Yiktor, Krip Vorland, a junior crew member, seeks amusement at the beast show. He is strangely attracted to the owner of the show animals, a delicate and mysterious woman, Maelen. When Vorland is kidnapped by a Combine seeking to control the planet, he learns too well the nature of Maelen's sorcery; she transforms him into a wolfish creature, in which form he retains his own soul.

Between them -- Krip and Maelen -- they spin an eerie tale of dreams and visions, of metamorphoses and extra-sensory perception, of timelessness and limitlessness.

The primitive world of Yiktor, evoked from myth and legend and ingeniously fused with the future, will be entered most receptively by readers acquainted with medieval heroes and mysticism. Even the singing prose rings with the cadence of legendary literature.

The Free Trader starship Lydis appears to be making an ordinary run to the planet Thoth, carrying incense for the great temples of Kartum. And so she is - until a civil war lands her in the middle of a battle of ancient powers and nameless evil, with a Forerunner treasure at its heart.

A psychic sorceress, a telepathic adventurer, and deformed ex-slave use their extrasensory powers to stop an intergalactic organization of thieves from looting the planets.

Krip Voreland, interplanetary Free Trader, Maelen, sorceress of the Moon of Three Rings, and Farree, an orphan with iridescent wings, search for the mystery of Farree's ancestry, the secret of this race of winged people known as the Little People and their well-guarded treasure.