Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > At 11:11 08/10/2004 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: >> I recently started reading Elizabeth Moon (she's going to be >> MileHiCon GOH), and when I found her first book, was disapointed to >> see that trilogy was in a basic D&D world. She got more creative >> since then. > > Why would you have gone all the way back and read her first books? > Were you _looking_ for something to hate? I wanted to become familiar with her works, saw a 3-in-one big paperback that had favorable blurbs. Her prose is decent, her characterizations good, I just was a bit irritated about the D&D setting. In her Space Opera she explored what immorality drugs can do to families and succession. I hope MileHiCon can get her in a panel with Wil McCarthy about this topic, which he explores in more depth. I have re-read Steve's first books and liked them very much.