Dragaera

dzurlord

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Mon Sep 1 14:55:54 PDT 2003

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, lazarus wrote:

>On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:33:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
>>
>>This page:
>>
>>   http://www.mojoworld.net/sil/ref/books.html
>>
>>States that:
>>
>>      Dzurlord is really only noteable for the introduction written by
>>   Steven Brust.  The rest of the text is not his direct work.  This
>>   book is out of print but you can read the introduction here.
>>
>>(where "here" is a link to the following page:)
>>
>>   http://www.mojoworld.net/sil/treats/dzurlordintro.html
>
>Also, Steve recently said that the intro isn't canonical, IIRC.
>
>

No, he said :

] Well, not having established the canon, I don't think it's fair for
] me to say.  I never said that bits and pieces of Jarhead and Yentil
] were not canonical.  

] Myself, I tend to prefer to see artillery used to support infantry
] action, but it really depends on the technology of the field piece
] in question.

Which is only slightly better than "Tee hee" in terms of its
information content.  Bah.  I nearly think he is indulging his
famous tendency towards being deliberately obfuscatory.