I dreamed a few weeks ago that I was reading a Vlad novel, in which he interacted with Queen Zerika in a very amusing manner. Last night, I had an even better and longer dream, where I was reading /The Final Contract/. It was *very* cool, and very well thought out, where the genuine motives for the Jenoine wishing to re-take control of Dragaera were made clear, and the transtemporal multistate nature of the Gods was explained a little better, and things tied in very neatly with what Vlad was, and has been slowly developing into. And there were more details about what Sethra Lavode does, and that ties in to some stuff she kinda glossed over in the big infodump in /Issola/. All in all, it was a very neat dream, and I just hope that when Steve actually writes /The Final Contract/, it will be at least that cool for real. PS: Speaking of cool stuff: You must all see /The Incredibles/. It really is that good.