> > But it is sentiments like the above that make me fond of newsgroups, > > including rec.arts.sf.written (RASFW), which does discuss Brust from RASFW, ugh. Love the topic, even subscribe to it, but (yes, I'm a weenie) there's a huge volume of messages in there, most of which about authors I'm not familiar with, so I barely ever read it, as it is a pain to sort through them. If you want to get all the good Brust stuff from RASFW, cut and paste this link into your browser: http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search?q=group:rec.arts.sf.written+a uthor:Brust&hl=en