On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Charlie Smith wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Philip Hart" > > >> Note that SKZB has said that no one else is anyone else. > >It becomes hard to trust such statements after Orca... Of >course it is obvious when you go through and reread all the >Vladiad... > The reason it says "else" is specifically because the statement was made *after* /Orca/, and was meant to exclude the revelation in that one particular book. Of course, the disclaimers about "as far as he knows" means that he might well come up with a better idea, which is true for all authors. And after all, if he comes up with such a better idea, he wouldn't want to spoil it by giving it away ahead of time, now would he?