----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Yan" <tyan at twcny.rr.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: How did you discover ... ? > I'm curious. How did you discover Steve's books, and how did you > learn of this mailing list? > > I learned of this mailing list from DDB's announcement on RASF*. > > I first discovered Steve's books one glorious summer many years ago > when my family was house sitting for a friend. They had a ton of > books, so I happily 2 to 3 books a day. That was mucho fun. One of > the books was _To Reign in Hell_, which I think I found somewhat > puzzling at the time. > > Anyway, for whatever reason, I didn't seek out Steve's books and, to > some extent, forgot he was the author of TRiH. > > So more recently I re-discovered his books because there were lots of > discussions on RASFW, and because Jo Walton had a rave about him at > her website: It looked like I was missing out a lot of the fun. > > So then I made up for lost time: all the pre-Issola Vlad books, _The > Sun, the Moon, and the Stars_, _Issola_, the Khaavren romances, > _Brokedown Palace_, _Agyar_, _Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille_, and > all 5 Liavek books. > > Hm, I know I reread TRiH somewhere in there; looks like I forgot to > record it in my minimalist booklog. Damn! > > - tky > Picked up an original version of Jhereg when I was a lad at the local bookstore. I now regularly check the "B" section of the bookstore for new books. Found Steve's website and found a few books I didn't know existed and read them. Ian