Rats Bats and Vats, Heyer and Free and Flint was Re: the Dinner scene in ACC was Re: [LMB] The Baen newsletter OT:

[Martin Bonham]

(I also sent a copy off list in case Dawn normally ignores OT: posts)

In the first digest of the new month (Vol 15, Issue 1)
Dawn Benton wrote in part
> I also have a question for those List Minds who are familiar with the work 
> of Eric Flint.  I also read the books set on Harmony and Reason (Rats, Bats 
> and Vats, and The Rats, The Bats and The Ugly) this weekend. 


As you only named two books I thought it worth mentioning that 
there is also a prequel Novella in that universe entitled
_Genie Out of the Bottle_.

If you want a dead tree edition it was published in the collection 
"Cosmic Tales II-Adventures in Far Futures"
Edited by Toni Weisskopf - a February 2005 paperback from Baen
ISBN: 0-7434-9887-9

The Novella is also available free as an eBook from Baen's Free 
Library.  To read online - 
Frameless
http://www.baen.com/library/0743498879/0743498879_toc.htm
Framed
http://www.baen.com/library/0743498879/0743498879.htm

Or download from one of the Authors Free Library pages.
http://www.baen.com/library/eflint.htm
http://www.baen.com/library/dfreer.htm


> Out of curiosity is Flint a Trotskeyite? 

He describes himself as a Socialist.
http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/biography/
I can't recall exactly which subdivision he is, but if I was to guess 
it wouldn't be Trotskeyite.
(IIRC it has come up in his "Mutter of Demons" conference at Baen's 
Bar, but I think I have always skipped those discussions unread)


> However, the main question is who is the Georgette Heyer fan,
> he or Freer or someone else? 

I am not sure about Flint but, 
Freer definitely is a Heyer Fan.
Google finds
"She wrote the best and funniest repartee-dialogue of any 
contemporary author"
http://www.baen.com/intfreer2.htm
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/29/122104.php


Martin.

ps: Freer's website also lists his Politics
http://www.doctormonkey.com/
http://www.doctormonkey.com/politics.htm


-- 
Martin Bonham, Auckland, (Aotearoa) New Zealand.
Home of Middle Earth, Whale Rider, and now also King Kong and Narnia.