I picked up some idle reading the other week and said, "Hmm! This is set in that shared world Steve or some of his Scribblie friends write in." Read for a while and enjoyed it, then put it down. A day or so later I picked up something else, read it, and said, "That was good! That's in that shared world, too... Wait a minute! Those two stories were in different worlds entirely!!" (Some of you can already see where this is going.) Pick up the two books and look at them. LiaDEN -- LiaVEK. Not the same. WTH do made-up names wind up being so similar?! -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website