I have to say I agree with Casey. There are still new people who might have just started reading Brust's books. I've only discovered Steven Brust about a month ago. Although I've already finished all his books except PotD and LoCB, it still would have been a big spoiler if I saw a post about _Orca_ two weeks ago. matthew at infodancer.org 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. > > >