"Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> writes: > Paarfi is writing romance novels, not a history, just as Alexandre > Dumas pere wrote _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ based on historical fact, > with a lot of stuff added. Many of the characters really existed > (D'Artagnan, Richelieu, Anne of Austria, Buckingham, etc.), but much > of the story was invented. We can't really tell how much of the > Paarfi romances is true and how much was invented, although there is > this difference: Most of the people in the Paarfi romances are still > alive at the time of Paarfi's writing, and all of Dumas's characters > had been dead and gone for at least a century and a half. Furthermore, several of them have Great Weapons, or are gods, or such :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>