From: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> [jacket copy on _Agyar_] >I remember being delighted with the jacket >copy for that book. I spoke with Patrick Neilsen Hayden at Tor, and he >chuckled, and explained that the production department had some sort of bet >going. I don't remember what, but something like whoever first used the >>"V" word in connection with the book had to buy lunch. I have access to the jacket copy now: "What if you could live for centuries, and the only price was your soul? Agyar is a man who has paid this price. Born over a century ago, and once a frivolous young man in search of pleasure, he found instead immortality in a woman's blood-red lips." (Why am I reminded of Joss Whedon's _Angel_?) Anyway, that may not actually *use* the v-word, but I would say that it certainly makes things pretty clear. -- David Goldfarb <*>|"I think hyperbole is the second greatest thing to goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu |come along since the invention of the mixing bowl." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- Todd VerBeek, on rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh