[Dragaera] [Orca spoiler] Rereading Taltos...

[Jerry Friedman]

--- On Fri, 2/5/10, Steve Rapaport <steve at rapaport.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Rapaport <steve at rapaport.com>
> Subject: [Dragaera] [Orca spoiler] Rereading Taltos...
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Date: Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:30 AM
> Hey, I just re-read Taltos and
> Jhereg.  Steve is *not* just making this
> stuff up as he goes along.
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> Orca spoiler mentions here.
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> I was amazed, especially in Taltos, at the number of clear
> hints at Kiera's
> identity.  Not only was Steve planning this from the
> start, he left clues
> for us.  Loiosh wonders if he's met Sethra before,
> Vlad notices that Kiera's
> eyes are really old (twice), Kiera shows up in Ferenc's
> coincidentally
> knowing stuff that only Sethra should know, (and Vlad later
> realizes that
> her presence there was no coincidence, but doesn't follow
> through on why she knows all that...)
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> And Kiera's voice is described as low and velvety, just a
> couple pages
> before Sethra's is described as low and silky.
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Although I didn't notice all that, my feeling after
/Orca/ was that Steve had decided this between
/Jhereg/ and /Taltos/. For instance, why would Sethra
be available in /Jhereg/ as Kiera but not as Sethra?

Jerry Friedman