At the risk of appearing a Philistine, I'll ask which book on page 40 is the one exciting interest? I'm supposing it must be the Thieve's World book. I take it that someone (Lynne Abbey?) has ressurected the series, seeing as how Thieve's World as a concept is hardly what one could call "All New". The idea of the shared world is interesting and was actually decently done in the very first book. It was the following two books where things went downhill. For me, the concept fell apart due to the inconsistencies of having a dozen different "takes" on the same characters. After a while, you couldn't tell just what any particular character was really like or was capable of. By the third book, there was no single true objective reality grounding the series. I got the feeling that Aspirin spent a lot of time coordinating the first book but that he just didn't care much any more by the time the third book rolled around. I suppose that if Thieve's World has been ressurected that someone might take it into their head to ressurect Wild Cards as well. (Actually, a quick scan of the web shows that Wild Cards apparently never died. The sixteenth voume was published last year and it looks like there's even been a novel or two. I guess that superheroes never go out of fashion.)