On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:07 PM, <c01demp@aol.com> wrote:
On re-reading the series for the umpteenth time, I notice
something interesting:

Garrett seems to have a remarkable knack for being at the
right place at the right time...both apparently a magnet for
pivotal events and a catalyst for same.

Make you wonder if Garrett does not himself have a (previously
unrecognized) piece the the magical gift himself...Garrett may
turn put to be not entirely as different from Strafa and her
family as he might prefer to believe...



Um, I could be wrong here, but in Angry Lead Skies, didn't one of the aliens say that he had a bit of psychic power?

Nothing at the level of The Dead Man, but enough to explain how he attracts women? Even (as his former general notes) in the middle of a swamp? It's been a while since I read it - but I could swear there was something like that in that book.

Richard