Iain E. Davis wrote: > I personally enjoy the fact that most of the books that he's written is > "presented" (is that the right word?) in a different way. Whether it is > telling the story through an unexpected set of eyes (Orca, Athyra, Agyar) > or the non-linear storytelling (Dragon), it keeps the stories from > simply being "old hat" as it were. :) To quote the author (re: Yendi on http://www.dreamcafe.com/books.html) "It was such a relief to get back to Vlad ... that I didn't pay enough attention to what I was doing--I just wrote a straight-ahead story with nothing much else to it. That's fine, in my opinion, if it's a Really Good Story. But Yendi is only an okay story." 'Course, I've always liked _Yendi_, especially the openning monologue, so straight-ahead narrative can work, and even for Steve, but yes, more complex presentations can offer many more opportunities for avoiding old-hatness. Casey