On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Casey Rousseau wrote: #Michael Barr wrote: #> A propos the problem of a Phoenix succession, what about all those #> purebred scions of the house whose birth was not graced by a phoenix #> passing overhead? What are they? And could one of them sire a Phoenix? # #Hmm. I never thought of that. I'd say Steve's got plenty of options for #dirty rotten sneaky underhanded author tricks. Suffice to say, when the #time comes for a new Phoenix to be revealed, I don't doubt that he can pull #one out of his hat. The question's been raised before, either on this list or its Yahoo(?) predecessor. It was left in the air, as no reader came up with a really good answer and Steve remained silent on the subject. I'm not trying to suppress discussion, just to give some listory. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website