Silvercloak
Past Imperative
Present Tense
Future Indefinite
Demon Sword
Demon Rider
Demon Knight (published under the penname of Ken Hood)
The Cutting Edge
Upland Outlaws
The Stricken Field
The Living God
Magic Casement
Faery Lands Forlorn
Perilous Seas
Emperor and Clown
The Reaver Road
The Hunters’ Haunt
The Reluctant Swordsman
The Coming of Wisdom
The Destiny of the Sword
Daughter of Troy (published under the penname of Sarah B. Franklin)
The Cursed
Hero!
Strings
West of January
Shadow
A Rose-Red City
About the Author
Dave Duncan is the author of over thirty books of science fiction and fantasy. Born in Scotland, he attended the University of St. Andrews. In 1955 he emigrated to Canada and settled in Calgary, Alberta, where he worked in the oil industry as a research geologist and businessman. Dave Duncan began writing in his fifties and had his first novel accepted for publication just two weeks after a downturn in the oil industry left him out of a job for the first time in his life. He has never looked back. Dave Duncan first established his name by writing several fantasy series, including the highly regarded Seventh Sword trilogy. His most recent series, Tales of the King’s Blades, was an international best-seller and spawned the sequel series, Chronicles of the King’s Blades. West of January is among Dave Duncan’s stand-alone novels and is considered essential Science Fiction reading and one of his finest achievements. West of January received the Aurora award for outstanding achievement in Canadian Science Fiction.
Dave Duncan lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife of over forty years. He has three adult children and four grandchildren.
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 Dave Duncan
Published in the United States in 2003
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of Red Deer Press or, in case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a license from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), 1 Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, ON M5E IE5, fax (416) 868-1621.
The Publishers
Red Deer Press
813 MacKimmie Library Tower
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary Alberta Canada T2N 1N4
Credits
Edited for Bakka Books by John Rose and Salman A. Nensi.
Cover design by Mike Speke, Speke Visual Communications.
Text design by Dennis Johnson.
Printed and bound in Canada by Friesens for Red Deer Press.
Acknowledgments
Financial support provided by the Canada Council, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, a beneficiary of the Lottery Fund of the Government of Alberta, and the University of Calgary.
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data
Duncan, Dave, 1933-
West of January
ISBN 0-88995-252-3
I. Title.
PS8557.U5373W47 2002 C813’·54 C2002-910249-9
PR9199·3·D874W47 2002
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