I think they were probably referring to IMPLANT in which one of the characters has a penchant for obscure words.

As usual, The Man is correct! Thanks, Paul.

I found a couple of connections in "Implant," which I am now rereading. Oliver, the chemist brother of the magniloquent Duncan, worked at some point for GEM Pharmaceuticals of "All The Rage" fame and also mentioned in "Mirage."

And at one point, while disparaging a truly greedy physician, Duncan mutters that the doctor probably graduated from the Ingraham, the notorious medical school of "The Select."

Another connection! Woo hoo! I love finding these links.

I just finished rereading "Implant." Dr. John VanDuyne is referred to briefly as the President's personal physician. He doesn't make an appearance; it's just a reference.

I'm now rereading "Deep as the Marrow." The first sentence is out of the mouth of the President's personal physician, Dr. John VanDuyne, a major character in this novel.

Edit to add another link: Robert Decker, special agent of the President's Secret Service squad, appears in "Deep as the Marrow," and he was in "Implant," also.

Another connection! Woo hoo! I love finding these links.

I just finished rereading "Implant." Dr. John VanDuyne is referred to briefly as the President's personal physician. He doesn't make an appearance; it's just a reference.

I'm now rereading "Deep as the Marrow." The first sentence is out of the mouth of the President's personal physician, Dr. John VanDuyne, a major character in this novel.

There's a connection to Freak Show in DATM. In The pine barrens, Snake notices a
charred circular area where the "Otherness" mechanism was activated by the Prather gang.

Keith The Elder

P.S. Incidently, Poppy is probably my all time favorite FPW character.

There's a connection to Freak Show in DATM. In The pine barrens, Snake notices a
charred circular area where the "Otherness" mechanism was activated by the Prather gang.

Keith The Elder

P.S. Incidently, Poppy is probably my all time favorite FPW character.

Poppy was one of my favorite charcters also. I think anyone who has read Deep as the Marrow would agree there was something special about that woman.

I don't know if this is the sort of link you're after - or indeed if it has already been mentioned - but here goes.
A while ago (on the old board) I mentioned that the name Emmerz Fent from Healer is similar to the name Emmett Fenton from The Select. Both of these people were the writers of books based within the world of The Man's books. Emmerz Fent wrote The Healer: Man & Myth and Emmett Fenton wrote American Medical Schools In Perspective.
FPW responded that the two people are supposedly related in a very distant way. I can't remember exactly, maybe The Man can confirm.
Hopefully this is useful to your compendium compiling!

I don't know if this is the sort of link you're after - or indeed if it has already been mentioned - but here goes.
A while ago (on the old board) I mentioned that the name Emmerz Fent from Healer is similar to the name Emmett Fenton from The Select. Both of these people were the writers of books based within the world of The Man's books. Emmerz Fent wrote The Healer: Man & Myth and Emmett Fenton wrote American Medical Schools In Perspective.
FPW responded that the two people are supposedly related in a very distant way. I can't remember exactly, maybe The Man can confirm.
Hopefully this is useful to your compendium compiling!

I'll say here for the record that they are related. My purpose in making the names so similar was a tip of the hat to observant readers familiar with my backlist. Like you.


BTW, folks -- how's the compendium coming?

I'll say here for the record that they are related. My purpose in making the names so similar was a tip of the hat to observant readers familiar with my backlist. Like you.


BTW, folks -- how's the compendium coming?

Well, Flyboy has gone MIA. I was just discussing this with Marc B. a little while ago. The problem is that I don't know how many tips he's gotten in e-mail and I hate to ask everyone to send them all over again.

Does anybody else want to take the lead on this? I'm happy to do it, but I thought it would be unfair seeing as how I already did the FAQ. I won't beat around the bush, it's a huge project and will take a while to accomplish. I think it would work the best if an actual team was formed and we had multiple people working on different aspects of it.

I've sort of forgotten the purpose of the compendium. Is it solely a place to list the many cross-references that can be found amongst all of FPW's books and stories? Or is it something more?

I had thought it was to be something more. But maybe the whole 'overwhelmingness' has proved to be a little... overwhelming? I know it's a task I wouldn't want!