It's not a huge deal. We discuss all of SKZB's books on this list and you really can't discuss much about Agyar without acknowledging the fact that it's a vampire story. I DID have the impression that it was supposed to be non-obvious and I don't remember it being spelled out that clearly on the cover blurb. Makes me wonder if there's been a change between printings. Anyway, the point is simply that even though all of us are familiar with some of SKZB's work, it doesn't follow that we're all familiar with ALL of his work. Every couple of months a newbie joins the list who's just discovered one of the Jhereg books and is looking for other SKZB recommendations to try out. Just because Agyar or Cowboy Feng's or even Jhereg have been in print for over a decade, it doesn't remove the responsibility we have as list members to keep the literary experience as "pristine" as we reasonably can for our fellow list members. Emphasis on the word "reasonably". It doesn't mean stifle every bit of discussion. Someone just starting on Jhereg might be utterly dismayed to find out the events of Teckla/Phoenix beforehand, but as a list we need to discuss those things in order to hold a discussion on Dzur. On the other hand, I think most of us respect the spoilers in Orca, even though the book is several years old at this point and pretty much everyone on the list has read it. The Agyar spoiler was, so I thought, along those lines. If it's being pretty much printed on the cover blurb these days, then that's apparently an incorrect impression. In any case, rather than argue semantics or degrees of "spoilerage", just ask yourself if it would be a surprise at all to someone who hadn't yet read the book. If so, then consider treating it as a spoiler out of deference to those people. In the case of Agyar, if it's being pretty much spelled out on the back cover then it's not really a spoiler any more, no matter what SKZB's intentions might have been. Oh, and I'd never seen _The Sixth Sense_, either. ;-)