KG (>>) and Casey Rousseau (>) wrote: >> I like the way you speculate; have you given any thought >> to where Kiera was when Stony died? That one's been >> bugging me for years, becuase you can't blame it on >> unreliable narrators or even typoes. > > Hmm. I was just rereading _Orca_ a week or so ago and did > not notice any continuity blips. I'll come out of hiding and contribute on this topic. KG is right; there's a subtle inconsistency in /Orca/, which is hard to spot because it takes place over two long and involved chapters. You can read a description I wrote of the problem at: http://google.com/groups?selm=allegro-1108991304310001%40209-142-59-140.stk.jps.net I remember trying to get Mark A. Mandell to add this to Cracks and Shards, but either I was able to convince him of the error, or the Interprocurum drove it >from his mind. ;) I also wrote to skzb about it a few years ago, and I can't find his reply to quote him (I did search both computers for it), but I remember feeling like a heel afterwards for pointing this out. His reply was something like, "The only satisfaction I can give you is that I checked everything very carefully, and I was very happy with the way the book turned out." I was very happy with the way the book turned out too, as evidenced by the fact that I read it so many times, enough to catch such a cunning oversight. /Orca/ is still one of my favorite books, and is certainly one of the best Vlad books. I wonder if we'll discover in a later story that Kiera was covering some other complicated plot she was involved with at the time? As I see it, /Orca/ ultimately demonstrates just how delightfully unreliable a narrator Kiera is, and that theme can sort of permeates everything if you let it.