Dave,

Back in the "Fantasy Rant Not Valid" thread (specifically http://www.rinkworks.com/rinkforum/view.cgi?post=464), you mentioned "...I've got a bunch of stuff "in the queue" for reading someday that I've been assured breaks away from all of these problems. I'll let everyone know how things go."

That stuff you were assured that broke away from my main problems with fantasy --

> 1. The pervading feeling that technology has
>stagnated at a level equivalent to the Dark Ages
>in England for the last few centuries.
>
> 2. Most authors use the same stock character
>types.
>
> 3. Most authors tell the same story.
>
> 4. There seem to be few authors that can tell
>that story in one book. Too many trilogies,
>cycles, and series.

-- that wasn't Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, was it?

Faux "Curious George" Pas