--- Louann Miller <lqmiller at ev1.net> wrote: > At 08:06 PM 1/28/2005 -0800, Mark A. Mandel wrote: > > > And at the end of Issola we see him about to go into [spoiler > extremely > > public location] with a [spoiler object] at his side. > > I'm relatively new here -- how evil is Steve? Because the evillest and > most > unlikely plot twist I can think of would be for that _not_ to be a setup > > for a Dashiel Hammet-like opening to the next book. Not to call anybody evil, but this is the guy who wrote _Taltos_ after _Teckla_ had left us hanging about the revolution and Vlad's marriage, and who wrote _Dragon_ after _Orca_ had left us hanging about Savn's recovery, and then covered Savn's return to his family in a couple sentences in _Issola_. (Unlike another poster, I'm not expecting to see the reunion in any more detail, though I'd like to.) I think it would be *exactly* like Steve to not have the upcoming book follow _Issola_ chronologically, and also to have whatever book does follow it start with no reference to the visit to Valabar's, and mention it casually or pseudo-casually later, maybe with a "heh". But I'm offering no predictions for the next book, except that it will be called _Dzur_ unless the author changes his mind. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail