《A Place to Begin》作者： - Richard Parks【EPUB】

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A Place to Begin Richard Parks Weird Tales Spring, 2001 Richard Parks is a Mississippi native, married, no children, three cats. He says, "Whether it's something in the environment or the local gene pool, Mississippi has always produced more than its share of scoundrels, myth-makers, and storytellers. I don't know why, but we can't help it." In his day job he's a computer network administrator. He sold his first story to Amazing SF back in 1980. After a hiatus, he sold his second to Asimov's SF in 1993. He was a frequent reviewer in the 1990s for SF Age . Since then he's placed stories in Science Fiction Age, Asimov's, Dragon, Realms of Fantasy , and Weird Tales , as well as in numerous anthologies. He published a number of fantasy stories this year, giving us several fine ones to choose from for this anthology. "A Place to Begin" is set in an oriental fantasy China, another of the traditional settings of fantasy. It appeared in Weird Tales , the oldest and still one of the best fantasy magazines. It is a transformed retelling of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," with added depth and finely tuned prose. Long ago, when the wind spoke with a voice you could understand, in a village by the sea there lived a poor girl of almost infinite potential. Her name was Umi, which meant "ocean." She had a sweet face, and hair long and glossy black, but so did most of her friends. Umi was hardly worth anyone's notice, to her own way of thinking. So it was to Umi's great surprise