On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > 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. This is an instance of a little-known phenomenon similar to Clarke's "9 Bnames of God" - when SKZB has written stories set in each of the several universes named by 6-letter combinations, this world will end,