On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:48:40AM -0700, Steven Brust wrote: > At 10:13 PM 7/17/2002 -0500, pddb at demesne.com wrote: > > And David and I have copies of > >the Mushroom Planet books, too, and reread them with great pleasure. > > As I've said before, the Mushroom Planet books are still my favorite hard sf. Yes, they have impossible elements but the basic hard-sf nature. AND they are in the rocketship-in-the-back-yard category, also one of my favorites. -- Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet (pddb at demesne.com) "I will open my heart to a blank page and interview the witnesses." John M. Ford, "Shared World"