Asgard's Secret

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For the Most Reverend LIONEL FANTHORPE, Primate Archbishop of the Interdenominational Templar Church of the Holy Lands and Good Friend

An earlier version of this story entitled Journey to the Center was published by DAW Books in 1982. A partly-revised edition was published in the UK by NEL in 1989. In the present version all the chapters that were unrevised in the NEL edition have been thoroughly rewritten, so none of the text of the original version has survived into this (much better) one, although the basic plot remains much the same.

If I had had more of a social conscience, events on Asgard might have developed very differently. In fact—or so I have been assured—the ultimate future of the human race might have been affected, perhaps for the worse, by my lack of charity. I find this a very sobering thought, and I’m sure that there’s a moral in it for us all. This isn’t my purpose in telling the story, however; I’m not in the business of writing moral fables.

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