Thomas Yan wrote: > I'm curious. How did you discover Steve's books, and how did you > learn of this mailing list? Robin Hobb recommended them to me in response to a question about _vivid_ fantasy where forests weren't just green blothes on a map copy/pasted from a standard template but where the author actually took time to create his own world. (She actually regularly recommends Steve's books, but most of what she says when she does that we're not supposed to talk about where Steve can hear, so I'll wisely shut up now.) :D Uhm, anyhoo, that made me finally look up the books. I discovered that I had long ago read one of the Taltos books, but that was in my "going through all science fiction and fantasy authors in the library in alphabetical order" phase, so I sadly didn't even recall there was something to follow up on. I read Jhereg, and I read Taltos, and Dragon, and at that point I liked the books but thought they were all somewhat similar and would probably get boring if I read many more. *hides in shame* And then I picked up Athyra at a book-fair-event-thingumawhopper and discovered I'd been somewhat hasty in judging these books, and rushed through all other Taltos books I could get my hands on (still looking for Phoenix) and went on to the Khaavren Romances and... Somewhere around then I discovered Steve's weblog and got into the habit of checking back every few days. Then not too long ago I saw the list mentioned on the site and thought that since I already didn't have any time anyway, I might as well add another mailinglist, for how busy could it get? :) May you always find shade and water, Sander