> I myself first heard about Brust when I was hanging out on > rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan. I'm sorry that you had to wait that long. Me, I found a cool paperback with a black cover and a dragon-like creature emerging from an egg back in the spring of '83. Since I had run out of new McCaffrey and Heinlein to read at the time and had a couple of dollars burning a hole in my pocket, I bought it. I've never been tempted by a Jordan cover. What I've heard in discussion since makes me glad of it. Steven _has_ had good luck with cover art. Casey