On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:40:03AM -0700, Howard Brazee (howard at brazee.net) said: [snip] > The only Brust book that I ever put aside was a collaberation. Oddly > enough I have never put aside anything by Emma Bull either. I'll get in > the mood when I have the Freedom or the Necessity to read that book. > > I noticed that when I Amazon Brust, I see Manna From Heaven by Roger > Zelazny, Scott Zrubeck (Editor), Steven Brust (Introduction) > > I love Zelazny, but have been disappointed by his collaberations. I'll > have to watch for it and read Steve's introduction to see whether it > praises Roger, or whether it praises this book. It's not a collaboration, it's a collection of his previously uncollected[1] short stories (including some Amber shorts). I was happy with it, but then I liked the last five Amber books well enough. [1] or at least uncollected in pure Zelazny collections--"Mana from Heaven", the almost-the-title-piece, for example, is in Niven's "The Magic goes Away" universe and I know I've seen it in the collection of stories in that universe.