At 02:03 PM 5/22/2003 -0700, Philip Hart wrote: >I was counting on 17 Vlad novels, but >even if Vlad dies or becomes a god after #10, there's always the past to >mine (a demon takes over Blackwand, the fight for the Necromancer's >soul, ...) Actually, if you want to hope for the best, it would be 19 Vlad novels. Mr. Brust has said if he lasts long enough and doesn't get tired of them, the plan is to write one for each house, plus [the already published] "Taltos" and a final book called "The Last Contract." Charley Sumner charles_sumner at harvard.edu "That's brilliant! They've hid the information in plain sight by disguising it as a web page."