MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond • Take to the battlefields

• Take to the battlefields of Skyrim with the Adventurer's Primer

creating many opportunities for incidents

With the Atomic Bonds Cooperative Upgrade Pack for Fallout: The Board Game

The handy cardboard carrying case and magnetic pieces make this set ideal for travel

MERMEN AND OTHER STORIES BY JANE YOLEN AND SHULAMITH OPPENHEIM Universes Beyond • Take to the battlefieldsMermen? Yes. Long before mermaids emerged to people our inner seas, long before they established their restless, inviting niche in human fantasy, there was the merman. Born of the human need to dominate the great fruitful oceans, to control the vast destructive seas, to regulate the healing rains, to understand the tides, the merman emerged. The merman was water personified. The imposing water gods could be wheedled, cozened, implored, butin the