[LMB] OT: Fantasy crushes

[David McMillan]

Paula Lieberman wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tzivia Adler" <tadler at yeshivanet.com>
> 
> 
>> From: "Marilyn Traber" <mtraber251 at earthlink.net>
>>
>>> ziviya wrote:
>>>>> also edward from the anita blake series
>>> ... Not too sure about Edward, I actually know
>>> someone very like him.
>>>
>> in my original post naming edward and captain dupree, i did mention that 
>> the
>> crush was based on never, ever meeting htem in person
> 
> Edward passed for socially acceptable able than David Drake's sociopaths.... 
> Edward hasn't had to glom onto someone else to be his compass.
> 
>> ziviya, thinking of hte bodyguard type in hammer slammers, now.  can't
>> remember his name. except taht he was in love with boss, and didn't have
>> time for female types, anyhow :(
> 
> You don't mean the sociopath, do you?!  David Drake's work has at least 
> two--at least one Hammer's Slammer character, and a main supporting 
> character in his Lt Leary books (Tova or something like that is the 
> character's name, she's attached herself to the main female lead character). 
	
	I'm pretty sure the character being referred to was Joachim Steuben
(IIRC), Alois Hammer's homosexual, obsessively loyal, nigh-sociopathic
and in-love-with-his-boss bodyguard.
	Tovera is the pet sociopath from the Leary books, attached to
everyone's favorite gunslinging librarian (a species we need more of,
definitely) Adele Mundy.

	(what's scary about this is that I haven't touched a Slammers book in
nigh-on twenty years, now, and JS was never a character who interested
me at all.  Isn't part of senility the phenomenon where you can remember
things from decades back more easily than things from last week?)