Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes [antikvár]

F0R€W0RD ^as? Zassletjoff Bunnfoot!" we stjout stensiy, peering down the road. "Come back with our magical time-traveling device, you doorknob of a kender!" "I'll come out," shouts Tas, "if you tell me some more stories!" "Promise?" we ask, peering behind bushes and into ravines. "Oh, yes. I promise!" says Tas cheerfully, "Just let me get comfortable." There is a tremendous sound of rustling and tree-branch cracking. Then, "All right, I'm ready. Go ahead. I love stories, you know. Did I ever tell you about the time I saved Sturm's life—" Tas goes on to tell us the first story in this new anthology set in the world of Krynn. "Snowsong," by Nancy Varian Berberick, relates an early adventure of the companions. Sturm and Tanis, lost in a blizzard, have only one hope of being rescued—Tasslehoff Burrfoot! "The Wizard's Spectacles," by Morris Simon, is a "what-if" story. Tas always said he found the Glasses of Arcanist in the dwarven kingdom. But what if . . . A storyteller tells his tales not wisely but too well in "The Storyteller," by Barbara Siegel and Scott Siegel. "There's a lesson you could leam from that!" we yell to Tas, but he ignores us and goes on to relate "A Shaggy Dog's Tail," by Danny Peary. It is a kender favorite, undoubtedly passed down from generation to generation although Tas, of course, swears that he knew everyone involved personally I Next, we hear the true story of the demise of Lord Toede in "Lord Toede's Disastrous Hunt," by Harold Bakst. The minotaur race is the subject of "Definitions of Honor," by Rick Knaak. A young knight of Solamnia