On 6/13/2002 at 6:43 PM tyan at twcny.rr.com wrote: >I'm curious. How did you discover Steve's books, and how did you >learn of this mailing list? I learned of the mailing list from DDB, during a discussion at a Minn-StF party (www.mnstf.org). Felix Strates may have mentioned it to me via ICQ, as well. I posted about it to my livejournal, some seem to have found it from there. I can no longer remember how exactly I discovered Steve's books. I know I picked up _Jhereg_ used and read it, seems like that was the first of Steve's novels that I read. Timeframe is difficult to narrow down. It's possible I read _To Reign In Hell_ first, I remember it wow-ing me. Yeah, seems like maybe I read it first, I think I was a little put off by diving into a series (even a relatively new one). By the time I read _Jhereg_, there were at least a couple books out in the series. I recall discovering Star Trek novels one dull summer right before I started high school (maybe?) and plowing through a ton of them and that those led me to seek out other books by John M. Ford and Diane Duane in particular. Got me hooked on sf/fantasy as an adult (I'd dug it as a kid, but hadn't read much of it in a good long while). First time I really examined the sf section of bookstores closely. And at around the same time, I discovered BBSes including Terraboard and FIDOnet and the FIDO SF Echo. And from people on various BBSes I learned of Minicon and on Terraboard I heard of Minn-StF. And I started looking for the books of people who posted to Fidonet. I think I meant to check out Steve's books, but didn't get around to it for a while. But at some point I binged on books by the Scribblies, pretty much. At the same time I started going to some Minn-StF events. And I remember trying to suss out relationships by reading the acknowledgement pages and dedications. Heh. I can't remember if I encountered Steven himself at Minicon or anywhere before I read his books or after. It's all a bit of a blur. Minicons and Fourth Streets and Fallcons and music parties and concerts and Renfest and like that. -- Laurel Krahn | www.windowseat.org | www.tvpicks.net