On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: #That's what I mean. He drops clues that he doesn't know the answer to. #Then figures out the answer for later books, tying up all the loose ends #(and creating more in the process). It seems like he must have known the #answer all along, because there are so many clues, but he's actually #just really good at picking up several clues and coming up with a #solution that answers several of them. A friend of his, writing to me about something specific on the C&S site, said just that. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website