On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >I'm tempted to cry "false advertising" on that. Loiosh is >*not* a dragon, and I can't see calling those covers "new >art". And if you're wondering why only those covers, its >because those are the only Brust covers that artist has done. > A quick search on "Ciruelo Cabral" brings up thousands of hits. Many of those sites have galleries of his works, including the covers noted. Speaking of Loiosh not being a dragon, I've been saving up the follwing for a while. It's from the Publisher's Weekly review of /Issola/, written, I see, by one Peter Cannon [1]: The dashing Lord Vlad Taltos returns in this ninth installment of the Taltos series [...] in which the hero engages in more philosophical musing than muscle work. Still a renegade, Jheregan outcast and witch, Taltos must rescue, once again, his Dragonlord friends, Morrolan e'Drien and Aliera e'Kieron, this time from the powerful creators of Dragaera, the Jenoine. Accompanied by his faithful familiar, the funny pocket dragon, Loiosh, Taltos as usual relies on his psychic and magical strengths as well as his dazzling swordplay. There's more, of course, but I daresay only the morbidly curious would be interested. [/"*FUNNY POCKET DRAGON*"!? Boss, *please* can I bite him?/] [1] It occurs to me now that this might be a snide pseudonym, perhaps.