Andre
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Norton, Andre.
<Moldvay:
Witch World; The Year of the Unicorn; The Crystal
Gryphon, et al.>
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Originally Posted by haakon1
I just read Andre Norton
and Jean Rabe's "Return to Quag Keep", with an intro by our fearless Colonel.
My summary of the intro is: "So Andre wanted to write this book, and I
said OK, and she did." 
I like the book.
I have three questions, for Gary and his fans hereabout:
1) One of the characters
is a gamer from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, who is vaguely aware that "Gary
something" is from there, and invented the game. Gary, are you a local
celebrity in Lake Geneva, or not? That is, do locals know who you are?
I'm guessing not, and I'm guessing you probably like it that way. 
I doubt that more than a
quarter of the people living here, if that, know anything about me.
You are correct about my lack of desire for noteriety...or local fame.
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2) Having never read the
original Quag Keep, is this meant to be a location on Lake Quag in Perrenland?
I assume so. Does it have anything to do with the Exag location in the
last issues of Dungeon in the same area? I may have to look that up.
Only Andre could have supplied
an to your question.
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3) At one point, there's
a view of the magical areas on (regular) Earth. These include, naturally,
some place in Wisconsin but also some place near Chicago. I assume the
latter might be the Comeback Inn, which supposedly inspired Dave Arneson's
first scene in his first game. Anybody remember where the (now defunct)
Comeback Inn was located? Or is there some other ubersignificance to Chicagoland
that I'm missing?
Again, Ms. Niorton wrote
the novel based loosely on the D&D gamne and WoG setting, going so
without giving me the benefit of her thinking in any regard other than
the completed work.
Cheerio,
Gary
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Gary xp
Norton, Andre.
<Moldvay:
Witch World; The Year of the Unicorn; The Crystal
Gryphon, et al.>
<Grognardia:
add Star Man's Son, by Andre
Norton>