[Dragaera] someone raising money to donate to skzb and emma bull

[Michele Riccio]

Looks like SKZB is becoming mechanistic.  :-)  good to know the surgery went well.



(from  http://boingboing.net/2012/08/25/raising-money-to-help-steve-br.html)

Update: Steve Brust says, 
This is very, very sweet, and I'm tremendously grateful for what Scott and everyone else is doing.  But you need to know that, as of a couple 
of months ago, I DO have health care coverage--after the congestive 
heart failure, Those Who Decide Things decided I was partially disabled 
(which I guess is true; it's slowed my work down) and I'm now on MA, 
which is how I was able to get the surgery. 
>The surgery, incidentally went off without a hitch.  I'm now a cyborg. 
>But to emphasize, I don't want to accept anyone's money under false pretenses; I am, at least for now, covered. 
>Which does nothing for how pissed off I am that so many others aren't. 





----- Original Message -----
> From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 2:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dragaera] someone raising money to donate to skzb and emma bull
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2012, Margaret Young wrote:
> 
>>  On boingboing.net (Raising money to help Steve Brust and Emma Bull's
>>  medical expenses--
>>  http://boingboing.net/2012/08/25/raising-money-to-help-steve-br.html ) Cory
>>  Doctorow links to Scott Lynch's offer to donate two-thirds of the 
> proceeds
>>  of his own "name your price" novel to Brust and Bull.
>> 
>>  [...]
>> 
>>  Skzb -- if you read this -- your books have brought me enormous amounts of
>>  enjoyment. If there is a way for me to contribute to your medical expenses
>>  (or Emma's) I would appreciate the chance to do so.
> 
> Coincidentally I've been looking at recent Texts a bit lately, and the need 
> to help people and the difficulty of accepting help is a persistent theme.  Thus 
> at the end of _Dzur_ Cawti practically taunts Vlad for getting rescued while 
> rescuing her.  And Aliera's situation drives her friends to drink in 
> _Iorich_.  And the theme of obligation which is so important after _Athyra_ 
> reappears in _Tiassa_, especially at the very end, where it brings two people 
> who ought to be friends nearly to blows.
> 
> Anyway if Aerich or Teldra were available to say, "This is how to do what 
> you should do", I would follow that advice.
> 
> Incidetnally Lynch's _The Lies of Locke Lamora_ is a terrific read likely to 
> appeal to everyone on this list.
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