I have just added the following section to the top of the Cracks and Shards page: >>>>> !!IMPORTANT URL INFORMATION!! [Dec. 10, 2002] On the Acknowledgements page of Paths of the Dead Brust mentions this site. Unfortunately, the URL contains a misprint: m a m (my initials and my login ID) is printed there as m a i n . The correct URL is http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ My ISP -- The World, operated by Software Tool & Die -- has very kindly set up a temporary alias page at the erroneous URL. If you have reached this page from that one, please go to the correct one now and bookmark it. (I would even ask you to correct it in the text, if you are willing to write in a book in a good cause.) <<<<< I don't know how long this temporary solution will last, or what kind of more permanent solution we will be able to reach. Further updates to the site, including even the data on POTD itself, have to wait a bit for Real Life to make a little room. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website