On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:55:53AM -0400, Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> wrote: > > It seems to me that particular item is one worth preserving a modest amount > > of spoiler protection. One could even make the same statement without > > naming the alternate persona and avoid spoiling for readers who haven't > > gotten to it yet. > > Even Steve has recommended against reading _Orca_ first to avoid learning > > too much aforehand. > > I don't have my books with me, but amazon claims Orca has been > out since 1996. Even if that's too early (it seems too early to > me!) then Dragon came out in 1999. That's either 7 years or 4 > years. Either way, that's an obscenely long time to put in > spoiler protection. It was 1996. And it depends how many people on the list haven't read all the Vlad books. If it's a fairly large subset, then spoiler protection should be very much enforced. -Dennis