On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Scott Schultz wrote: >> From: John Mietus >> I wasn't trying to imply anything -- I just wanted to make sure >> you'd read Orca without giving away any spoilers to those few >> people on the list who hadn't yet. > >Ah, yes. I'd mentioned that in the opening paragraph as something >to basically ignore. Kiera stands on her own, so any stories about >her or told from her point of view would ignore _Orca_ or at most >make oblique references to it. It would be interesting if the stories had odd gaps in time, perhaps for the same (probable) reason that /Orca/ did. After all, there are other things she needs to take care of (to put it as obliquely as possible). > In fact, I'd imagine a series of Kiera stories to be set in the >time period between _Viscount_ and _Taltos_ such that Vlad would >either not exist (being unborn at the time) or he'd be a youngster >getting his first taste of the "business" side of the House with >Kiera as occasional mentor. > I think that this would be a Cool thing to do. We might also see her stories tie into the Vladiad in other ways, like the thing in /Jhereg/, which might have been something she stole ten years before the events of /Jhereg/. Hmm. What would we call the series? The Kieraiad?