I bought _Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille_ back in the giddy days when I would still buy books because, "it looks cool." It did look cool, and it was cool. Then the brother of a friend suggested I pick up the Vlad books, and I did, one at a time over the course of 1990 (Phoenix having just come out when I finished). And here I am, twelve years later, on a mailing list that I saw an ad for in rasfw. -Dennis