On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: #_Book of Taltos_ has been out a while, and BoA is out soon #(January maybe?). #> And what are these volumes called in general? I'm using #> "compilation volume" as a term of convenience. # #I call them omnibuses. To refer to these specific volumes, #maybe we could call them the Books of Vlad. Omnibus. Feh. Latin for "for all". They don't have all the books, but that objection is the etymological fallacy. Omnibus it is... Actually, what does Tor call them, if anything? Probably omnibus. #I can dig up my BoT and do that (maybe tonight, maybe #Thrusday) unless someone (Thomas?) has notes for it already. Thanks. Thomas? -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website