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Wake the Dragon
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A child is warned by his furnace-master father that a dragon lurks in the heart of every furnace, and must not be woken... years later, with a son of his own, he realises what that dragon is.
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A M Kirkby writes a wide range of fiction, including fantasy, SF and historical novels and short stories.
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