At 11:34 PM 11/17/2002 -0500, Mark A Mandel wrote: >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! You are most welcome. <grin> ># >#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. And dedicated it to the folks at Locus. Yes, indeed. One of the great comebacks in the history of sf.