On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:20:44PM -0500, Tucker wrote: > My take on spoiler space: > > There's some big things that I think should be permanently spoiler-spaced. > Examples include the point of Agyar, the Big Secret (and maybe the Little > Secret) at the end of Orca, and Lady Teldra in Issola. Things that aren't > quite so earthshattering can probably be despoilered after, say, a month or > two in paperback. This is how I'll be doing it, at least; since I buy the > hardbacks (one of the perks of working in a bookstore) I probably won't get > hit with any spoilers myself, however people choose to do them. This comes up about every 9 months or so, must be the list pregnancy. The standard that I take, unless there is list-mom or authorial objection, is there is no need for spoilers for anything n-1 books back. In other words, I will protect the two latest books, but I feel no moral obligation to make reading this list a more time consuming process than it already is. :) -Jot -- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> http://www.bofh.com/books/ "I'm upping my standards, so up yours!" -Pat Paulsen (1927-1997), Presidential Campaign Slogan