From:  Philippa Chapman  <philippa@dapc.globalnet.co.uk>
       (Glastonbury, Somerset, UK.)
Date:  Sun, 15 Dec 1996 12:00 -0500


                     OCTARINE LEAP (AUTHOR'S NOTES)

This story was born out of reading Discworld followed by a lot of QL 
fiction from this archive.  The ideas swam around together in my 
unconscious for a while and then *bang* - one morning, this story popped 
into my head.  As Discworld is available as an interactive computer 
game, I saw no reason why Sam couldn't leap a little further through the 
imaging chamber into this alternative reality.   There are Terry 
Pratchett-like explanatory notes for novices, trainee wizards and other 
life-forms.  Oook!  This is a Donna-free timeline.  (Sorry, Donna fans).