...pired by The LaRousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, Roy Chapman Andrews' The New Conquest of Central Asia (The American Museum of Natural History, 1932... ...ia Britannica, and Mildred Cable and Francesca French's The Gobi Desert (Macmillan, 1944). The last was supplied by Andre Norton, who graciously a... ...shed over the Internet: Fire and Fur: The Last Sorcerer Dragon. When not writing or teaching, he enjoys his family; tinkers with “Baby” (his souped... ...ugh. Dawn cracked over the far plateau. A thin, eerie sound trembled the new day's air. The dew in the sand made it sing as the sun stole it away.... ...aning dry sea, in the high speech. Yet, as ever, she looked again at the writings that the Ao Rue had carved around the cave mouth with the tip of ... .... Sorrows too deep for speech, unbearable, only slightly relieved in the writing. They were fragments, without style, too heavy for grace: From t... ...eated water collided in clouds and whirlpools. Ao Rue caught fragments: "New, it's good," "Yolbas . . . great," "My scales, we'll bake," "Leave?" "...