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  During this period he began writing again, and at the urging of friends, he finished his first novel, Magician. In 1980 the novel was published, signaling the beginning of a career that now spans more than thirty years.

  Feist lives in San Diego with his college-age son, and has an older daughter who lives in Northern California. His chief interests are music, wine, single-malt Scotches, football of all types, film, the company of friends, and spending as much time as possible with smart and insanely beautiful women.

  Stephen Abrams was born in 1951 in Fairfield, California. His father, a pilot in the air force, moved often, which resulted in Abrams’s traveling extensively throughout the United States and Europe during his childhood. He later earned his master’s degree from the University of California–San Diego. After working at the university for a couple years he decided that he’d rather be in the computer science field, and after some additional study he landed a job at the NCR Corporation, followed by Burroughs, Doric Scientific, and SofTech Microsystems. He then came to Cubic Defense Applications, where he’s worked for the last twenty-nine years as a senior systems and software engineer.

  Always an avid gamer, Abrams started participating in role-playing games in 1974, the same year Dungeons & Dragons was released in the original three-book set for miniatures. Soon he and his friends—a group of gamers aptly called the Thursday Nighters, and later the Friday Nighters, after the days of the week they met—created the Tome of Midkemia, a new set of gaming rules far more realistic than those of D&D. The world of Midkemia became the game environment. In order to game in Midkemia, each player had to contribute a dungeon, city, town, or country into the shared world. In 1979, Abrams and his good friend Jon Everson started Abrams and Everson (Midkemia Press), publishing game products.

  Abrams lives in San Diego with his wife, Mary, and has three adult stepchildren who live in California and New York. His interests include sailing, sports cars, wine, single-malt Scotches, and computer gaming.

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  MIDKEMIA

  THE CHRONICLES OF PUG

  Copyright © 2013 Stephen Abrams and Raymond E. Feist

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