Not Long Before the End (#39)


DateSettingTypePublishedI.U.C.
1969-04Magic Universe: Warlock Short StoryFantasy and Science Fiction, April 1969
W. 01


ReprintsCharactersAwardsNotes
Anthology, Nebula Awards Stories Five, edited by James Blish (cloth and paper);
anthology, The Golden Road, edited by Damon Knight;
graphic, Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction, May 1975;
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, ed. Edward L. Ferman, Octopus 1985;
Barbarians, ed. Robert Adams, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, NAL/Signet 1986;
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, ed. Tom Shippey, Oxford University Press 1994;
Treasures of Fantasy, ed. Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism 1997;
anthology, Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Chancellor Press 1991. UK HB;
All the Myriad Ways
Inconstant Moon
Magic Goes Away Collection, The
Magic May Return, The
Time of the Warlock, The
Best of Larry Niven, The
De Stranden Van Serius Vier
 Warlock;
Hap the barbarian;
Glirendree;
Sharla		 Hugo nominee, Nebula nominee 1st Warlock story


Summary
First published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1969. This story introduces the Warlock, who discovers to his horror that the world's mana, the fuel that makes magic work, is rapidly dwindling. The news spells doom for magic-based society. Unfortunately no secret that powerful can stay hidden for long...