On 2/16/06, Steve Simmons <scs at di.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:14:21AM -0800, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > > . . . And the Great Weapon he's carrying seems to have plans of > > its own. > > *Her* own. *Her* own. Are we perturbed about the Dzur blurb word? Thurb. Um. Anyway, cut the marketing persons some slack. It may be that they work for [strike]Glorious Mountain Press[/strike] Tor Books, and we like Tor because (despite having a very poorly (indeed, hideously) maintained website), they do actually publish good books in a timely fashion, including books by some gya, er, *guy*, named SKZ Brust.