what strikes me as odd is that someone would want to get rid of Athyra at the book fair. >From: Sander <dragaera at juima.org> >Reply-To: dragaera at dragaera.info >To: Dragaera list <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Re: How did you discover ... ? >Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 01:54:11 +0200 > >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com