>Aisse is Ace Books, D'Rai is Del Rey Books, and Tomas, Oscar, and Ramon >is Tor Books. I don't know who Greenbough and Phent are. Does anybody know? Yep,this topic has come up a couple of times. I think that someone recently quoted Steve (maybe as an excerpt from a posting on rec.arts.scifi about a discussion at a convention, I don't really remember) to the effect that Greenbough and Phent aren't actually book publishers. They were music publishers or real-life agents or some such. As far as I know, Steve hasn't posted anything to the list confirming or denying any particular guesses. Oh, yes, here it is: http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/1567