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STONE DANCESTONE DANCE
  • The Stone Dance of the Chameleon
    • Introduction
    • The Three Lands
    • Calendars and Seasons
    • Masks
    • Characters
    • Carnelian
    • Osidian
    • The Song to the Earth
  • Second Edition
    • Why a Second Edition?
    • The Masters
    • The Chosen
    • The Standing Dead
    • The Darkness Under The Trees
    • Dragon Fire
    • The Mirror Breaks
    • The Third God
  • First Edition
    • The Chosen
    • The Standing Dead
    • The Third God
The Stone Dance Bible / Why a Second Edition?

Why a Second Edition?


Once upon a time, I said in an interview that there was only a single word that I wanted to change in the whole of the nearly 700,000 words of the Stone Dance. How things change. For the Second Edition I have reduced the books by at least a quarter. As a more mature writer, it seemed to me that we could do without some of the excesses of my youth. More importantly, I took the time to sort out all kinds of problems that I have been aware of for some time. Among many changes, Fern has become Blue—as he was always meant to be. I have broken the Stone Dance into seven rather than three parts. There are practical reasons for this, but it is the artistic reasons that were the clincher. I have had to write new material, most specifically the four new ‘hinge chapters’ that were required: if the First Edition was a triptych, the Second is a heptaptych. (more)

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