MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 73 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: country by jc-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk (Jerry Cullingford) 2) Links to home pages by jc-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk (Jerry Cullingford) 3) Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 67 by "Tarja Rainio" 4) Re: Banned Books 6 by URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com 5) Re: country; gyrfalcon by Moriana-+AT+-aol.com 6) Re: country; gyrfalcon by MaryKite-+AT+-aol.com 7) Re: winter cold by Julie Vaux 8) July 1995 Firebird Music catalog by KERISH-+AT+-SPHINX.TAMU.EDU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 08:35:24 +0000 (GMT) From: jc-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk (Jerry Cullingford) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: country Message-ID: <9507100835.AA04711-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk> > No, no, no. For traffic circles, which I presume are what we normal people > in the UK call "roundabouts", try Bracknell... > > M. > Or Hemel Hempstead - our "magic roundabout" looks like a big roundabout with six or seven little ones round it, with people going both ways around the big one :-). (Actually, it's fairly simple - really, it's just a series of small roundabouts connected by short (a few car lengths) road sections - but it can confuse people that haven't seen it before. -- _|_ / | Jerry Cullingford jc-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk (Work) \_|_ jc-+AT+-selune.demon.co.uk (Home) \__/ Hemel Hempstead, UK jerry-+AT+-shell.portal.com (alternate) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 08:58:14 +0000 (GMT) From: jc-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk (Jerry Cullingford) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Links to home pages Message-ID: <9507100858.AA04864-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk> > Jerry (or Ian), whomever is doing this link thing: > > I have a home page created by my current husband John. Would he have > to make a change in it for the link to be made at your end? Obviously, > I'm not the geek in our family....8^) No - all I need to know is the URL of the page and I can put a link in; you don't have to change anything. It's a bit like phone numbers - once you know the number, anyone can call :-) -- _|_ / | Jerry Cullingford jc-+AT+-crosfield.co.uk (Work) \_|_ jc-+AT+-selune.demon.co.uk (Home) \__/ Hemel Hempstead, UK jerry-+AT+-shell.portal.com (alternate) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 17:31:18 EET DST From: "Tarja Rainio" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: MERCEDES-LACKEY digest 67 Message-ID: <10AE6E01D9-+AT+-katk.helsinki.fi> Wendy Hill asked: >Also, I've just realised that these holidays are in your summer. Australia >Day is 26/1 (in our summer). Do you think all country anniversary-type >days are held in summer? Actually they aren't. Finnish "anniversary-type day" =the Independence Day, and it is in December (6th to be exact) and at that time it's winter here. Tarja ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 23:39:39 -0400 From: URAMESS-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Banned Books 6 Message-ID: <950705233855_108734618-+AT+-aol.com> In a message dated 95-07-05 17:04:11 EDT, you write: >banning a dictionary is the dumbest thing i've ever heard of. BINGO!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:39:58 -0400 From: Moriana-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: country; gyrfalcon Message-ID: <950710193957_29856983-+AT+-aol.com> Well, its no better here in northern NJ. Yesterday it was 50, today its almost 90. Go figure. Maybe there's a weather witch out there who's going batty. :) Dyrina ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 21:07:48 -0400 From: MaryKite-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: country; gyrfalcon Message-ID: <950710210746_29922033-+AT+-aol.com> 80's and 90's and 100's since...wow....weeks ago. Summer's really flying by. :::sipping iced tea::: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 14:05:26 +1000 (EST) From: Julie Vaux To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: Re: winter cold Message-ID: <199507110405.OAA15363-+AT+-metz.une.edu.au> Alright alright we aussies get the message - canada is colder! But please remember for us even when temperatures drop below zero it rarely snows and this is late at night - the temperature altho getting down to 14 c recently late at night in armidale goes up as high as 15 c but usually 10 or 12 c midday! IT CAN BE COLD WITHOUT SNOW !!! wind chill factor ??? while we're on the subject of winter chills ? how far north do you think Valdemar is on Velgarth. I get the impression the northern mountains may have snow all year around ??? also just how far away are the western or southwestern oceans where the haighlei are and the eastern seaboard of the aurelian empire??? the dorisha plains dont seem to get much rain so they may be in a rain shadow but nearby seejay is notorous for its rainy climate? I am assumng tho what we are seeing is a northern continent of velgarth - we have no idea how far south haighlei is - it may be on a southern continent joined by a land bridge??? has mercedes ever said anything about velgarth as a whole? julie storm rose vaux wishing she was a weather witch like her velgarthian counterpart tho all she can do is call up the wind and move a few clouds around and she usually needs to draw on an external power source ... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 23:54:05 -0500 (CDT) From: KERISH-+AT+-SPHINX.TAMU.EDU To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-vanyel.herald.co.uk Subject: July 1995 Firebird Music catalog Message-ID: <950710235405.23e03c17-+AT+-SPHINX.TAMU.EDU> I just got my catalog in and thought I should share... The cover is the cover for David Arkenstone's Quest of the Dream Warrior. The first thing on the inside is the new web address: http://usa.net/firebird Next up are the three new books to be out this year. Storm Rising: In Storm Rising, mysterious mage-storms are wreaking havoc on Valdemar, Karse, and all the Kingdoms of the West, plaguing these lands not only with disastrous earthquakes, monsoons, and ice storms, but also with venomous magical constructs - terrifying creatures out of nightmare. Both Valdemar's Heralds and Karse's Sunpriests struggle to marshal their combined magical resources to protect their realms from these devastating, spellfueled onslaughts. But as the situation becomes bleaker and bleaker, the still fragile alliance between these long-hostile lands begins to fray. And when Karal, the young Karsite envoy to the court of Valdemar, is wrongfully accused of collusion with the enemy, only the personal intervention of Solaris, the High Priestess and ruler of Karse, can defuse what is rapidly becoming a dangerously explosive situation. But Solaris also confirms the worst fears of the Heralds - that these storms do not come from the Eastern Empire, but from a completely unknown source. And unless Valdemar and Karse can locate and destroy the creator of the storms, they may see their entire world demolished in a final magical holocaust. SR includes black and white illustrations by Larry Dixon. August/September 1995 release date $21.95 416 pgs The Fire Rose: Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago, unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco. Jason Cameron her new employer is a man with a problem: An Adept and Alchemist, Master of the Element of Fire, he had attempted the old French werewolf transformation, and got stuck in mid transformation. Trapped halfway between wolf and man, over the centuries he has been slowly losing his humanity, and with it his ability to discover a cure for his condition. October 1995 release date $22 448 pgs Tiger Burning Bright: (Lackey, Norton & Bradley) Long has the House of the Tiger ruled Merina, guiding the tiny merchant city/state wisely and skillfully in times of peace and prosperity. But now the Emperor Balthasar has come to devour and destroy, his indomitable armies gathering at the gates, poised to crush the defenseless city. Three courageous women stand between the Emperor and his triumph, Adele, the aging but still able Dowager Queen, the ruling Queen Lydana, possessor of an astounding sixth sense that is the private gift of her bloodline, and Princess Shelyra, lithe, quick impetuous and ingenious, the young commander of spies and information gatherers. But they have no standing military and no arms, except their wiles, their wits and weapons of the spirit with which to defend their besieged home. Fall 1995 release $23 Well... That's all the "new" Mercedes stuff I noticed. There are alot of new things in the catalog and my pocketbook is already screaming to be used. Still no mention of the two books for Tregarde, or the next one for SERRAted Edge, that we had been teased with before. FYI: I've found two anthologies that haven't been mentioned before that have Lackey short stories. Deals with the Devil Ed. by Resnick, Greenberg & Estleman. There is an 11 page or so short story by Lackey and Dixon called "Small Print". If you think the tele-evangelists made a deal with the devil and should get it in the end, you'll love this story. The other is GRAILS: Quest of the Dawn Ed. by Gilliam, Greenberg & Kramer. In this one there is an absolutely devine story, about 18 pages long, called "The Cup and The Cauldron." There is a second GRAILS book but I didn't have enough money (and there wasn't a Lackey story in it). Guess I've taken up more than my fair share of bandwidth. Lift up your cares! Diana ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 73 ********************************