I reproduce below a message exactly as received, deleting only the sender's ID. The "(sic)" is his. I don't know for sure what he's talking about, and I have urgently requested clarification about the link not working. Does anyone, including especially Steve, have any comment on this? -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:22:08 -0800 (PST) From: NAME EMAIL-ADDRESS To: mam at theworld.com Subject: U need to reference Empire of the East This is the birthplace of dragonara (sic) by Fred Saberhagen - Burst thanks him for the Idea / genisis of the world in the 1st book of seris and Fred's own popular SWORDS series is set in one such offshoot of this world creating book. PLZ Check it out (ask Burst if U don't beleave me) it is the primary birthing place of both world and links them back to ours (thus explaining how humans survived, technology vanisihes and Magic is born (reborn) Thanks NAME P.S. found you by searching the forward link from the book was not working for me and I only read the Intro and books link so far so if you had a link add a reference in the books page. See Ya NAME