The Face of Chaos

New York, NY: Ace Fantasy. Very Good. 1984. 4th Printing. Paperback. 0441225497 . This is a mass market paperback. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges. "The dynamics of sharing characters led to occasional conflicts between authors, as referenced by C. J. Cherryh in her afterword to Blood Ties: "You write your first Thieves' World story for pay, you write your second for revenge." In an interview for Green Ronin's Sanctuary-based roleplaying guides, Abbey explained the increase of interconnected storylines as the series progressed. "The stories of the first few volumes stood by themselves. But starting in about volume three (Shadows of Sanctuary) the authors began collaborating… big time. Eventually just about every author worked with the same plot threads, some of which stretched over several volumes." Authors would often mine each others' stories for plot ideas, with a minor plot point or piece of dialogue turning into a complete story in a subsequent volume. " (from Wikipedia) .