[Dragaera] Boing!

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 9/5/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
> To the left, the review could have been worded better to give a more
> accurate depiction of what the books are *about*.  While
> "Zelazny-esque" will probably tickle Steve pink, "animal-like" and
> "faerie" gives a rather distorted impression of anthropomorphic
> furries with shimmering butterfly wings, or something like that.
> "Faerie", in the context of Dragaera, means one thing.  In the broader
> context of most fantasy, it means something very different indeed.
>
> Still, the enthusiasm is palpable.

The funniest thing to me was watching someone try to describe Vlad's
adventures as a linear chronology:

"Vlad starts out in the first novel, Jhereg, as a kitchen-boy who finds
better employment as an enforcer for an organized crime syndicate, loving
the work because it lets him beat up Dragaerans... As the series progresses
(it's up to book 10 now), Vlad rises to become a crime-boss, then a force in
the empire, then an exile."

That sounds more like /Bio of a Space Crime Tyrant/ than the messed-up
Devera-ish time meanderings that Steve loves to inflict on us. Not
complaining, though--the review was positive.

-Maximilian

-- 
Be pretty if you are,
Be witty if you can,
But be cheerful if it kills you.