Asgard's Secret

ASGARD
'S

SECRET

THE ASGARD TRILOGY

BOOK
ONE

BRIAN

STABLEFORD

Five Star • Waterville, Maine

Copyright
© 2004 by Brian Stableford.

Previously
published by DAW Books, Inc., under the title "Journey to the Center"
copyright © 1982 by Brian Stableford.

All
rights reserved.

This
novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either
the product of the author's imagination, or, if real, used fictitiously.

No part
of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic
or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information
storage and retrieval system, without the express written permission of the
publisher, except where permitted by law.

First
Edition

First
Printing: October 2004

Published
in 2004 in conjunction with Tekno Books and Ed Gorman.

Set in
11 pt. Plantin.

Printed
in the United States on permanent paper.

Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stableford,
Brian M.

Asgard's secret /
by Brian Stableford.— 1st ed. p. cm.

Completely
rev. ed. of: Journey to the center. ISBN 1-59414-211-4 (hC : alk. paper) I.
Stableford, Brian M. Journey to the center. II. Title. PR6069.T17A94 2004

823'.914—dc22                                                           2004053347

an
ebookman
scan

For

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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.

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