Fasten your seat belt! You are in for the ride of your life! The Adversary Cycle is THE BOMB! Wish I could go back in time and read them for the first time; ain't nothing like it.

Be careful what you wish for, Maggers! If you =could= go back in time to read the Cycle again, you might be trapped in what's called a "strange loop." And then you'd be seperated from the space/time in which you'd be enjoying Paul's =new= fiction.

And that wouldn't be cool at all.

I've just finished the Adversary Cycle books, and you're not kidding about having the wool pulled over your eyes...

Don't beat yourself over the head about it. L. Neil Smith, another of my favorite authors, does the same sort of thing. Only he does it with the names of real people. In his novel, The Nagasaki Vector, the evil villainess was named Edna Janof. It was about ten years before I finally twigged to the fact that he had rearranged the name Jane Fonda.

TEN YEARS! :o

Ken V.

Don't beat yourself over the head about it. L. Neil Smith, another of my favorite authors, does the same sort of thing. Only he does it with the names of real people. In his novel, The Nagasaki Vector, the evil villainess was named Edna Janof. It was about ten years before I finally twigged to the fact that he had rearranged the name Jane Fonda.

TEN YEARS! :o

Ken V.

After 10 years, did it come to you in a dream? Or in a burst of brilliance, like a lightbulb going off over your head? Or did someone tell you?

Be careful what you wish for, Maggers! If you =could= go back in time to read the Cycle again, you might be trapped in what's called a "strange loop." And then you'd be seperated from the space/time in which you'd be enjoying Paul's =new= fiction.

And that wouldn't be cool at all.

You're right about that! I'd cry if I couldn't get any new FPW!

By the way, I live in Manhattan and I'm in the B&N at Lincoln Center all the time. Isn't that where you work?

Don't beat yourself over the head about it. L. Neil Smith, another of my favorite authors, does the same sort of thing. Only he does it with the names of real people. In his novel, The Nagasaki Vector, the evil villainess was named Edna Janof. It was about ten years before I finally twigged to the fact that he had rearranged the name Jane Fonda.

TEN YEARS! :o

Ken V.

Hope it wasn't 10 years of hard time, Ken. But thanks for the tip--I'll check out NAGASAKI VECTOR.

After 10 years, did it come to you in a dream? Or in a burst of brilliance, like a lightbulb going off over your head? Or did someone tell you?

Somebody told me that Edna Janof was an anagram. I figured it out from there. But that wasn't the first time . . . or the worst time.

In The Probability Broach Neil mentioned a book called Toward A New Liberty, by Mary Ross-Bird. I knew he was making a reference to a real book entitled FOR A New Liberty, by Murray Rothbard, but it was a few years before I finally made the connection between Mary Ross-Bird and Murray Rothbard . . . OH! Did I feel dumb! Especially since I have that book in my library.

Sheesh.

Sometimes you DO have to drop an anvil on me.

Ken V.

Hope it wasn't 10 years of hard time, Ken. But thanks for the tip--I'll check out NAGASAKI VECTOR.

I read the book at least a half dozen times, and it just . . . never . . . dawned.

The Nagasaki Vector is one of the funniest books I have ever read. But it will make more sense if you read The Probability Broach first.

In TPB, a Denver homicide detective -- while investigating the murder of a physicist -- is transported into a parallel universe where Congress hasn't met for thirty years, there is very little crime, no taxes, and everybody carries a gun. It's the first book in the North American Confederacy series.

(TPB won the Prometheus Award for 1982. FPW won it in 1979 for Wheels Within Wheels, and again this year for Sims. FPW's GATEWAYS is a contender for next years award.)

In TNV, the Skipper of a time machine has his craft hijacked, and he and his three little alien buddies find themselves marooned in the NAC and go to the detective from the previous book for help.

Ken V.

Well, this just totally sucks. . . . I have Reprisal and Nightworld, but can't find Reborn!!! I hate going out of order! (Oh, and Dad, if you're reading this, it's not lost, just currently misplaced!) I really wanted to spend my fall break reading the AC, but just can't start without Reborn! You guys are making me jealous!

Well, this just totally sucks. . . . I have Reprisal and Nightworld, but can't find Reborn!!! I hate going out of order! (Oh, and Dad, if you're reading this, it's not lost, just currently misplaced!) I really wanted to spend my fall break reading the AC, but just can't start without Reborn! You guys are making me jealous!

Well, if you can't find it I have an old paperback copy I could probably send you. Hate to see someone suffer when it comes to good reading.

Well, if you can't find it I have an old paperback copy I could probably send you. Hate to see someone suffer when it comes to good reading.

How sweet! I don't think we have another break from school until Turkey Day, so I hope to find my dad's copy before then. . . . again, not lost, just currently not with the others! I find it hard to read for entertainment and read icky school stuff at the same time, the entertainment ALWAYS wins and I end up freaking out over homework and exams. . . . college should be done when you're still young enough to do both!! Or maybe still childless enough to do both, but I wouldn't trade him for the world.
If I don't locate the currently misplaced copy, I would love to borrow yours, I really miss Glaeken!