At 02:28 PM 5/22/2003 -0700, Greg Rapawy wrote: >--- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > you've said in the past that you felt it was >important in _Teckla_ and subsequent books to move Vlad away >from being an assassin because you felt that the first two Vlad >books came too close to glorifying, or endorsing, or failing to >condemn, his conduct. *blink* Did I say that? What was I on at the time? > Did you think about it consciously, or did you feel >that the conclusions you had drawn about the responsibilities of >an author naturally informed your later work? I tend to consider consequences in any story, because, well, that's part of the fun. I also enjoy setting a thing in one book and examining the consequences in another. Does that answer your question? It's all that comes to mind.