On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Steven Brust wrote: #Good lord! That is *weird*. That was the working title of the book that #eventually became ORCA, I think. YAVN, of course, stands for Yet Another #Vlad Novel. Which now reveals how Savn got his name. Hoo-HAH! Another item for my "names" section. Thank you, Steve! # #But I'm very curious about how they came across that bit of arcana, and how #it turned into a new book at this point. Kinda like the way the title of Gene Wolfe's fourth "New Sun" book, _The Citadel of the Autarch_, leaked out as "The Castle of the Otter". So he used the latter title for a book of notes and musings. -- Mark A. Mandel