At 18:43 -0400 13.6.2002, Thomas Yan wrote: > I'm curious. How did you discover Steve's books, and how did you > learn of this mailing list? I was in 7th grade in 1983 and reading everything I could get my hands on [1] -- mostly sf and fantasy with the occasional mystery. In one of my trips to the bookstore with a gift certificate, I picked up Jhereg because, as another poster said, it looked like the kind of fantasy I was enjoying (I think my other favorites at the time were Thieves' World, Darkover, Randall Garrett, and a year or two later, Zelazny). I loved the irony-laden 1st-person narration, and picked up everything else I saw by Brust from then on. I somehow missed The Gypsy when it came out, and I never saw To Reign in Hell until Orb reissued it, but just about everything else I read as it was published. My tastes have matured a bit, but I've found more and more to love about Steve's books, so at this point I'd call him one of my top 3 or 4 favorite authors. Like others, I saw DDB announce this list on rasfw, so I signed up; I'd been in the habit of checking Steve's webpage now and then, but rasfw got the news to me more quickly. - Nancy. 1: 'voracious' is hardly descriptive enough: my rate was around 6 books a week, if I recall correctly ... how I wish I could still keep that up!