Steve said in his weblog: The book has picked up nicely in the last few days. It seems, however, that instead of being TIASSA, it has decided that it wants to be DZUR. Well, who am I to argue? We'll see if it changes it's mind again. It's interesting - I have been curious how much he designed a book to fit in which race he wanted to write about, and how much was the long term plot he wanted to write about. Of course the short term can always take over (temporarily). Maybe he had in the back of his mind a DZUR plot and a TIASSA plot, and hit a bit of story that made him change his mind. It will be fun to read the book and try to figure out what was working well for a TIASSA plot. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/