MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1888 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Monster Braid on subjects old and new by "Tim & Tiffanie" 2) handicapped characters by skyfire-+AT+-t-online.de (skyfire) 3) RE: handicapped characters by Lisa Whitman 4) Re: Monster Braid/censorship by LCM46-+AT+-aol.com 5) Re: endings by Obsidian 6) Re: handicapped characters by Amy Trujillo 7) Re: blindness/censorship by Greg Wooledge 8) Re: handicapped characters by Alia Rose 9) Re: blindness/censorship by Starmane 10) RE: braid by "Oceania Angels" 11) books and reading... by "Alexia/Sabrina" 12) by "charlotte distefano" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:52:23 -0600 From: "Tim & Tiffanie" To: "Misty List" Subject: Monster Braid on subjects old and new Message-ID: <006a01be6100$be9e6b20$56b7bfa8-+AT+-tiffanie> Hey all! It's your friendly, neighborhood Goddess of Elves and Unicorns. *She looks around with hands on hips at the untidy number of soap boxes laying around, cluttering the Hall "tut-tut". She calls the sheep-riding brownies over to pick them all up and take them to the laundry room.* Mutters, "now we can finally get all of Torrell's messes cleaned up, and the Goddess of Laundry will have something to work with." *Looks up, and around* "Oh, hi! Now we can dance again without tripping over all the soapboxes, anyone who wishes to claim a personal soapbox can find it in the laundry room." Now on to real stuff *grin* *********************************** Orilaith asked: >It seems to me that everyone here's read the Valdemar series(es?!), so my >question is this, has anyone read the Bardic Voices? the Urban Fantasies? >The Tregarde, Serrated Edge, etc. Or the sci-fi (Of which I only remember >"The ship that searched")? For those of you that haven't, they're >great... for those of you who have: Which series do you think could cross >over? And how would you see some of the charactors reactiong to >eachother? I actually started with Misty Filk (I have still never heard any of her filk that has to do with Valdemar except "Kerowyn's Ride" and "Winds four Quarters". Read a few S&S short stories, found Oathbound, etc and By the Sword and went straight into the Bard Tales series, then Bardic Voices, Wing Commander (she also has a short story in the "Bolo" series and Elven Bane and the Serrated Edge (what was published then), Diana Tregarde, then on to Arrows half way through them LHM then finished Arrows, thenpicked up whatever I could as they came out. I was lucky, in that i didn't start reading Misty until 1992, so alot of stuff was already published. As for cross overs? Hmm, Bard Tales and Bardic Voices, easily and I think that they could cross over into Valdemar quite easily. Another area, like the Empire, where they have discovered/learned to use the Bardic Gift to do other kinds of magic. They also have regular magic there though its confined to the priesthood. So, I think they would work there. Oh, and the Deliambrian devices? Left overs from the Mage Wars era, not all things invented then were weapons of war. ******************************* Orelaith again, on Mark Shepard's Elven Dude: >::makes a face:: I'm not uber-happy about this... I think they should >co-ordinate the magic system a bit more if they're gonna write in the same >world... I noticed way too many inconsistant stuff which was a bit >annoying... what's even morea nnoying's they're both good, and I'd >probably not have such a problem if the world wasn't the same... ::Grin:: >I tried pretnending they were different worlds, but it's no use... :( I quite agree, especially since he helped write parts of the SERRATED edge series. Plenty of other Hames were mentioned that he could have used as a spin off, so as not to coincide with pre-written stuff. But some of the GLARING inconsistancies are really annoying. *Goddess mumbles about donkey-eared elves* Oh, the second book is Spirit Ride, haven't read it yet. *********************************************** Shadow Wolf, fellow diety asks: >Now for an ObMisty. If Prince Terenil and Korendil were elves in >Tolkien's world would they be more closely related to Elrond and his >people or would they be more closely related to another branch of elves? >(For example the sylvan elves.) I think the Elrond group, more knight-like than sylvan and they seem closer to that type. Live in cities, etc. *mumbles about needing to re-read the LoR Tril again* ************************************************* Lady Starlight, on the great reading debate: >There is a difference >between censorship & guidance. Would you let a 10-year old watch an >NC-17 movie? or even a PG-13 movie? or give him/her a copy of Hustler >magazine? Yes, Yes, No. Of course it would depend on the movie. We take all our kids to see the same movies we do. (ages 4,5,6,8,12) and have since their births. If its rated-R because of language, violence and/or mild nudity, then they would miss out on some great stories. We teach them to see beyond the above 3 and look at the story. Most sex goes over their heads and we teach them that although other people use bad language, they shouldn't. Now, we don't watch horror, and rarely watch drama, so what we are talking about here is mostly action/adventure, sci-fi, etc. Unfortunately, its rare that sci-fi with a decent plot is rated less than R or PG-13.(Blade, Starship Troopers, Long Kiss Goodnight, Zorro, etc) We talk to them about any subjects that they seem interested in that they didn't understand, (and those that they do). As for Hustler, no, not much literary value there. But we do go out on the net and look at old master's works which often depict nudes and I have some fantasy books (Vallejo, etc) that depict nudes as well, and I occaisionally use a nude reference when drawing. We teach them there's nothing wrong with nudity in the proper place and time. Homeschooling alows us alot of freedom to teach what we think is right, as opposed to politically correct. **************************** Julia Gray: >obmisty: any idea what misty likes to read? or .... >is there a particular reason you read misty (i.e. plot? a certain character? descriptive passages?) She reads MZB, CJ Cherry for sure, for she talks about them being role-models. Also, I would assume she read Keith Laumer and SM Stirling, since she has written things with/for them. And I read Misty for the Elves! Also, there is a lot of emotion in her works. ****************************** Stormdance k'T'more queried: >Also, I've been wondering how you can become a deity (or "Arm >of.." or "Hand of..." a deity). Weren't there some sort of guidelines >for that here on the MLML? Thank you! Well, the simple answer is to read the NewbieFest *grin* (its in there). Otherwise, you just apply to the diety of your choice and ask to be a priestess, etc (I think I am the only one with Hands and Arms). For Dietyhood you apply to Cennyd the Avatar of Nomenclature. Apropriate bribe...uh, gifts are appreciated. *giggle* NewbieFest address at the bottom of the page. ****************************** Ellen shena Liha'irden: >But personally, I love both. I read mostly fantasy, but have gotten into >a few sci-fi novels...(I love Greg Bear for instance! and Heinlein, >despite his cro-magnon attitude towards women) I believe that sci-fi and >fantasy do belong together on the shelves, it's just the same stuff with >different settings.... I agree, many authors of sci-fi write fantasy and vice versa, so having them grouped together allows you to find them easier. (That's why I always hated the Di Tregarde stuff being group in horror, could never find it. Probably would have done better in Fantasy/Sci-fi). Then there is the stuff that is cross-over like ShadowRun, is it fantasy or sci-fi? Same with SERRAted Edge. There is a lot more of that going on now. I started with horse books (of course) at age 6 or so and read everyone they had in the library and still love the Black Stallion series and many other (Anderson, etc.). I started Sci-fi at 9 or 10 from my parents shelves (they belonged to the Sci-fi Book Club) I also read Narnia sometime in that area. Those books that I didn't understand i just put down, and got another one. I began alternating Sci-fi with romance around 11 or so and moved naturally into fantasy as soon as it started becoming more popular. Read LoR/Hobbit about age 13 or so and moved into the Destroyer around 16, (Remo Williams rocks!). I still read all of the above. I never liked horror, mystery (pure), biographies, drama, or any of those other Fiction. But read those assigned in school, "Lord of the Flies (3 times, hated that book), Old man and the Sea, etc... I did like Chaucer though. I also read voraciously at school, in between classes, and when homework was done, etc.. never had any real problem with it as long as I could answer the questions. When I complained about having to read the Lord of the Flies again, the teacher had me read one of his other works and report on that instead. So, I guess I got it easy in that vein. My parents never censored my reading and in fact encouraged me to read, no matter what the stage. They aren't thrilled with D&D, but after I explained it as impromtu theater, they tolerate it. ********************************* Elsa, dear knight of fluff,replying to somone who wasn't credited: <> > It's more like if you read fantasy, you can deal with unreality. Some >people don't like this genre because they just can't suspend their >disbelief... no imagination. Others just don't like it. It happens. That's true (the it happens part). My daughter loves RL Stine (shudder), we buy them for her, because we want her to read. She also likes biographies, autobiographies, histories, etc. (more shudders) but she likes Misty too and has read quite a bit of sci-fi and fantasy off our shelves. We just arrange books that we think are too old/confusing on higher shelves, they are there, but not easily accessable. (ie the witchcraft books are up high, the National Geographics are down low). Carrach likes the SERRAted Edge but hates LHM (Vanyel personally, not his sexuality) but loved Tarma and Kethry. He also loved the Jordan series, but I've never read them. I read romance, he doesn't like them, he reads mystries, I don't like them, he read Plato, I've never tried. Personal preferences vary widely. I was reading Dick and Jane at 21 months (no kidding, we have it on tape!) and I have never looked back. I think speed of reading affects how much/what people read too. If you are not a good/fast reader you will only read things that are specifically interesting. If you read faster you can afford to read things that aren't your normal fare and be disappointed or pleasantly suprised. *********************************** bits and pieces: Yes I re-read books all the time. I've read Jonathon Livingston Seagul 20-25 times.(My all time favorite book). I used to have a nearly photographic memory, over the years its become an instamatic. So I re-read to remember details, though I usually remember plot basics. I'm a Snake/Cancer and it fits me to a "T". I have found that the combined Zodiac by Susan White is much more accurate because it combines both the western and eastern. Also, different stages of life will be more or less accurate. On gaming, we game nearly every night (with each other trading off as DM), we sometimes DM the kids and the kids DM each other and we play Battlemechs with them 2-3 times a month. We don't watch much TV, 1-2 hours a week. Though the kids watch more. *************************** Well, we've finally come to the end of this monster braid and you probably know more about me than you ever wanted *grin* Have a great day all! Dax the Eternal, Goddess of Elves and Unicorns, Evangelist of Low Humor, Knight of Fluff, Councilor of Mist, Watcher of Continuity for the Mistic Circle, HomePage: http://homepages.infoseek.com/~dakorillon/index.html NewbieFest: http://www.ling.udel.edu/hyde/pers/misty/newbiefest.html Elfwood Page: http://www.elfwood.com/lothlorien/artists/tiffanie/tiffanie.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:54:16 -0800 From: skyfire-+AT+-t-online.de (skyfire) To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: handicapped characters Message-ID: <36D63708.3AD29446-+AT+-t-online.de> Elizabeth Hoffman schrieb: > I couldn't really come up with many > non-token characters in Science fiction or fantasy books. Ship who > sang series yes, any thoughts? There's one-armed Kerris in Elizabeth A. Lynn's fantasy novel _Dancers of Arun_ (2nd of a trilogy with _Watchtower_ and _The Northern Girl_). All of her books are well worth reading (if you can find them! most are from the late 70s/early 80s) and many of her characters are shaych. And there's one-armed Scillia in Jane Yolen's _The One-Armed Queen_, although I haven't read that one yet, just the short-story in the anthology _Women of War_ (ed. Lois McMaster Bujold & Roland Green). -- Khenta B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:53:25 -0800 From: Lisa Whitman To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: RE: handicapped characters Message-ID: I haven't been able to read some of the posts, so forgive me if this one was mentioned, but how about Herald Jadus? He was wounded in battle and could not walk without assistance. It's not a total handicap, but it's a partial disability. In that same vein, the herald who escorted Karel and Ulrich (forgot his name of the top of my head) to Haven. Hadn't he had a stroke? (His right side was stiff.) Also, there was Justyn, in Owlflight. He was brain damaged. Although he retained most of his mental faculties, he lost his magic. This may not be a visible disability, but the equivalent would be for a carpenter to lose his primary arm, or a track star to lose his leg. Star ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:11:37 EST From: LCM46-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: Monster Braid/censorship Message-ID: In a message dated 2/25/99 4:17:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, tntgray-+AT+-sprintmail.com writes: << and the Goddess of Laundry will have something to work with." >> Thanks so much, I WAS running low on soap---washing all those darn sheep and towels takes a toll on the supply! Fluff aside, on the censorship topic--my parents never questioned anything I was reading, and I somehow managed to read Lady Chatterly's Lover at age 14--to this day, it remains one of my favorite books. I have never censored anything my 4 readers wanted to try. (#5 is handicapped and cannot read---poor baby, doesn't know what he's missing. We're going to try some books on tape for him, tho.) My kids do not share my appreciation of fantasy/sci-fi, tho. Can't convince them they're missing some good 'stuff'. Back to the laundry for me. Thank the gods that Yvonne hasn't been tossing that bucket at all the newbies--things are finally drying out here in the halls! Lorraine Laundry/Domestic Goddess Appreciator of Penguins But I'm not dead yet! MP/Holy Grail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:51:05 -0800 From: Obsidian To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: endings Message-ID: <36D5E1E7.39FF8B61-+AT+-softhome.net> Heyla, I've just finished Tiger Buring Bright. It was ok, but one thing I hated about it: The ending was so predictable. I mean, don't you just hate it when every book has a happy ending. Not that I'm a sadist or anything, but for once I would like to see the bad guy rule all and win in the end. It'll make the story more believeable and surprising. Anyway, I've just started the Black Gryphon. I'm half way through it and it really isn't as bad as some of you guys put it. Of course the characters are nothing like some of Misty's other characters in her books, but their good enough. I'm actually surprised at myself for almost liking Skandranon. Not that there isn't anything wrong with his arrogance or anything, but it's strange that I'll actually like a gryphon, and I'm not one of the fantasy animal fanatics (No offense to anyone:) But I've got a question. Is there any reference in Misty's other books that the makaar survived? Or did they just disappear? Obsidian Unknown forces rule more absolutely than the truth. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:23:38 -0600 From: Amy Trujillo To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: handicapped characters Message-ID: <36D5F798.6BCE-+AT+-southwind.net> Heyla, On the handicapped thread: Umm, all the ones I can think of are sci-fi not fantasy Anne McCaffrey's shell person stories are the best example that I can think of...and Misty did one of those..The Ship Who Searched. Others are Killobyte by Piers Anthony one of the characters is paralyzed and goes onto the net to escape. Another really good book I can think of is Expendable by James Allen Gardner..it is set in a world where if someone is horribly handicapped, everything is done to help them....but if they are just slightly different...disfigured, deaf or just different then they are put in this special military unit and given training to explore other worlds. The whole point being that if they died...it didn't matter. The main character rises above that stigma and triumphs....really really good story. That's all I can think of at the moment. Until next time, english toffee sheep to everyone Amy Ferret Friend Lady of All Things Missing, Especially Socks ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:35:29 -0500 From: Greg Wooledge To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: blindness/censorship Message-ID: <19990225203529.A4763-+AT+-phoenix.local> Shadow Wolf (shadowwolf53-+AT+-hotmail.com) wrote: > About the miner in the Sword of Ice, I think Misty described the > bitterness of many disabled people very well with that character. The story in question is called "The Demon's Den", and it's by Tanya Huff, not Misty. (Remember, SoI is an anthology of Valdemar stories by authors other than Misty (though Misty co-wrote 3 of the stories).) -- Greg Wooledge | Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ wooledge-+AT+-kellnet.com | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:50:39 PST From: Alia Rose To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: handicapped characters Message-ID: <19990226005039.4971.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com> handicapped characters....lets see... Well, Tenel Ka in the Young Jedi Knight's books has only one arm(they're chessy, but cute), the telekenitic kid in McCaffery's Pegesus in Flight is paralysied (whoa, my spelling is horrid today)from the neck down, and one other character in that book is also physically handicapped,there's a kid in another McCAffery, Dolphins of Pern, he has a club foot, i believe, umm...thats all i can think of right now. speaking of McCaffery, has anyone besides me read her new one, Nimisha's Ship? i just finished it.email me offlist if you have, i want to know what others thought of it. Obmisty: i asked this question a while ago, but nobody answered, so i can ask it again. ok, in the first "winds" book, the gryphons are having a mating flight. it was my understanding that the flight was complete before falconsbane interrupted. no mention is made again about it. it if was finished, where are the new gryphlets? somebody PLEASE answer, this is really starting to bug me. ambermoon, i finished "Bitter Earth"! ill write you soon. ************************************* Alianora Rose Friend of Greenfire icq# 1372207 ************************************* "Strangly enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias was Oh no, not again." -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:57:34 -0800 From: Starmane To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: blindness/censorship Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19990225215734.008dc3ec-+AT+-mail.music.vt.edu> Heyla all, Just thought i'd delurk and add my few cents in on both these issues as well. (wow, i have a solid coat of dust on me... i suppose i should delurk more than once every 6 months! :-) ) Anyways, another two series that have a physically disabled person is the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, wherein Miles himself whom the whole series circles around has a body that he would gladly trade in the whole time. and Game of Thrones (i lent out my copy and have forgotten the authors name...) wherein on of the central characters falls out a window and ends up parapalegic. Another series that i just remembered is the Assasin's Quest series.... About the censorship issue....my parents were sort of divided about reading. I read rather a bit as a child. My father felt reading was a cop out from the real world, but my mother read voraciously, and was more than willing that i should learn that addiction. I was constantly in trouble at school for years by being acres ahead of the "expected age bracket" i was supposed to be in. However, i kept reading, and still do quite regularly. I find it allows me to be more creative, and willing to look for offbeat answers to problems....as well as a convenient way to hide in plain sight! :-) Anyways, i think that's all i have to babble about.... Chocolate rasberry fool flavored sheep to all..... Starmane/aka Shawna ------------------------------------------ Oh, and i can't seem to find my state of grace. who knows, tomorrow may never come. One look, one touch is all it take... these things forever change us... these things forever change us....... ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:21:25 PST From: "Oceania Angels" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: RE: braid Message-ID: <19990226072126.1109.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com> Heyla all! Isabel wrote: >Quietfire wrote: >>He has even gone so far at times to have bought me copies of Sweet Valley >>High books! >Oh, gag. This would be the point at which I either disowned or killed the >man. Sweet Valley High is the most useless, fetid pile of horse droppings >imaginable. They're not _that_ bad. I _used_ to hold a similar opinion about them, but then I wondered if maybe I was missing something so I read one of those books. It was actually interesting. > And may I add that >seeing people blame books/TV for murders or suicides makes me grit my teeth >and want to smack several people? That really is incredibly stupid. We had a murder(s?) a couple years ago over here (Washington state) where the police found a copy of MPawn on the suspect's room (or maybe they already knew he did it...I can't remember). And of _course_ it came under suspicion as the _cause_ of the murder(s?). ~shakes head~ Idiots. :P ~sigh~ Yvonne wrote: >On Censorship: > I never really had that problem at home - my Dad read Tolkin >to >me before I was able to read it to myself, which kind of got me >hooked. I've never really had that problem either. My mom read to me all the time when I was little. As a result I learned to read before my Montessori teacher thought I should. She wouldn't allow me to read the books at school until my mom picked the hardest book from the shelf and had me read it out loud. We never had trouble with that from her again. I think the first fantasy books my mom read to me were the Circle of Magic ones. Unless Muppet Babies and Fraggle Rock books count. >Before I read animal books - especially horse books, which led me to >picking up Arrows of the Queen when I was 11 or 12. I don't really know what I was reading before Misty....Nancy Drew...Narnia...books on mythical beasts...that's all I really remember. I read MPawn at 9 or 10. I _know_ I vaguely knew that there were shaych people, but that the main char of a book was one surprised me. A little. My mom was reading it to me when I figured out what he was (which was about the same time he did) and think if I hadn't kept a straight face she might not have finished it. Good thing I did. I was too interested in the story by then to have just let the book go. The only censorship my mom did with that book was to change the swear words. Same thing when she read 2150A.D. to me. Except then she deleted the 'inappropiate' parts too. Those are the only two times I can think of that she censored anything. Of course that could be because I went on to read pretty much everything else on my own. >On Age to begin Misty: > Ack - hard one there. I guess it would depend on maturity >level. Definitely, definitely, definitely! I whole-heartedly agree! (Could anyone tell? ;)) >On Re-Reading Books: > Heck, yes!! All the time. I find that otherwise I just don't >get >enough reading material, and then my head explodes. *G* Well, my head doesn't explode, but I'd get bored to death if I didn't read my books more then once. I never really thought about which books I reread more often. It really depends on my mood. Well I guess that's all. I hope I didn't bore anyone to death. Stars light your path, Sorana S. Stargem Herald-trainee, %-+AT+-"So free for a moment High Priestess to the Goddess%-+AT+-Lost somewhere between the earth and of Unicorns, %-+AT+-the sky Goddess of Flions, %-+AT+-So free for a moment Knight of Amber and Marigold,%-+AT+-Lost because I want to be lost Knight of the OOUH %-+AT+-Don't try to find me" -+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+-%-+AT+---The Martinis ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:44:44 -0000 From: "Alexia/Sabrina" To: "misty" Subject: books and reading... Message-ID: <05a901be61a7$7315e500$ebc828c3-+AT+-i.casale> My parents didn't exactly censor what I read- they told me I wouldn't like stuff and that it would upset me and I took their word for it. They would suggest books and I remember my father buying me all the famous five books there were to encourage me to read... as I'd just be diagnosed as dyslexic and my parents had been ordered to try to get me to read they were very happy that I wanted to read anything- I didn't read until fairly late- I started to learn and then refused because I was being taught in a way I coudln't understand because of my dyslexia- once I got taught in a way I could understand I never stopped reading At one point my parents were limiting my reading- even hiding books because I was reading more than one a day and it wasn't good for my eye-sight. I was also pretty sick for six months so they wanted me to rest and not read... I read Austen around that time... my mother had read me Dickens when I was pretty young... and Narnia... I remember that I particularly loved the Wizard of Earthsea books- I was ten/eleven and those have bits that are quite grim... they're rather depressing books in places... Just depends what type of depressing I guess. And the Susan Cooper books which I loved and found perfectly OK. >>Da the Eternal said: >Then there is the stuff that is cross-over like ShadowRun, is it fantasy or sci-fi? Is this a Misty book? I've never heard of it. >>Da the eternal said: >I also read voraciously at school, in between classes, and when homework was done, etc.. never had any real problem with it as long as I could answer the questions. I read all the time at school- we had religious assemblies in the morning and I'm atheist so I tried to read through them- and most of my classes... I remember getting really upset when they took away my books- and it wasn't like I ever had problems with the classes- I was bored and I figured if I did something to occupy myself quietly and non-disruptively there shouldn't be a problem... think again! A lot of the books we read at school were AWFUL- really basic and very boring... we had one Judy Blume book I think called something like Tigers Eyes? something like that... I HATED it. God I hated it. And really BAD poetry. The books at college were MUCH more interesting . I've only started reading fantasy lately apart from the odd book I read as a child... I tend to read a bit of everything- I don't tend to like sci-fi as I either find it depressing or boring. In terms of fantasy I've just read some of Misty and CJ Cherryh- I'm starting Terry Prachett- the covers are enough to send anyone running away screaming, but the books are GREAT- love his views on cats Anyway, I'll quit waffling now. Alexia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:11:21 PST From: "charlotte distefano" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Message-ID: <19990226171122.17539.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com> Stormdance, I'd be happy to get more involved,but I don't really know how. If you want to tell me, that would be great. For now, you can call me whatever variation on "Charlotte" that you want. I've probebly heard them all. ~~Charlotte, Char, Char-Char, Charlee ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1888 **********************************