On Oct 24, 2008, at 6:42 AM, Lawrence Jenab wrote:
I thought I read an interview (I can't remember where) that confirmed my own suspicion, which was that the pending contract was the only reason Glen wrote the book--i.e., that he thought the character and the situation had run its course. He's written dozens of fantastic, energetic, and thoughtful books--ALS just isn't one of them, IMO. The Tyranny books, written around the same time, are so much denser and more intensely felt that I'm guessing that's where his heart was.
I gotta go with this. ALS just doesn't "fit" with the rest of the series, although in the sense of being a more juvenile sex comedy it does follow Petty Pewter Gods (which is otherwise a much better book than ALS). Fortunately for us, he's back on track and looking set to wrap the series with a happy ending in the next book or two. I'm just hoping the omnibus Dread Empire reprints do well enough to justify more books in the series. No, I'm not taking my medication, why do you ask ? -- Michael Llaneza maserati@speakeasy.net