I bet he lost it while in the East. Just a wild, uneducated guess :-) On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Steven Brust wrote: > At 11:22 AM 6/7/2002 -0400, Beldarrin at aol.com wrote: > >> I think the book covers are just wonderful, especially cute l'il >> Loiosh. One thing bothers me, though. Why does Vlad have such light >> hair on the covers, and no whiskers? It gets me kind of confused, but >> then, I confuse easily. > > As I've said before, I think the covers are wonderful, but neither Vlad > nor Loiosh look in the least the way I envision them. There's no > reason why they should, either. The point of the cover, in my opinion, > is to grab the attention of the sort of person who would be inclined to > like the book. There is no reason, in my opinion, for the picture on > the cover to match the description inside--except emotionally. > > (In my own vision of Loiosh, he has two legs, is smaller, smoother, his > head is more snakelike, and his wings more batlike). > >> And finally, we come to a question I doubt will (or can, maybe, >> at this point) be answered. What happened to Vlad in the two years >> between "Phoenix" and "Athyra?" How did his pinky get missing? (Oh, >> the suspense!) > > Oh come now, Steph. Vlad has explained how his pinky became missing. > At least two or three different times. Just because the various > explanations were mutually exclusive is no reason to doubt them. :-) > > > -------- Read The World at the Edge of Time, my new book! http://homepage.mac.com/christurkel