On 4 Apr 2004, at 7:29 PM, Brazee wrote: > On 4-Apr-2004, djheydt at Kithrup.COM (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: > >> Well, there's hommage, and there's painfully slavish imitation. >> For my money, Brust can call it whatever he damnwell likes, >> so long as he keeps writing it. > > But nobody is going to walk past a book called _Jhereg_ and say "I've > always > wanted to read about that", unless he's already been sold on the > series or > author. The title is meaningless to new readers. Therefore, by logical extension, this mailing list doesn't exist. ed -- Ed Hahn / ehahn at isochronism.com "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got an even swing!"