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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Highlights and Lowlights - May 2025
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 22:13:11 -0500
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On 6/5/2025 9:22 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <101q3mt$tr68$1@dont-email.me>,
> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Highlights and Lowlights - May 2025
>>
> 
> Thanks, as usual!
> 
>> ( +++ 1/2 ) Cast in Atonement - Sagara [Elantra #18]
> 
> My constant plan stated here to get back to these is once more
> reiterated!
> 
>> ( + - - - ) Rogue Star - Pohl & Williamson [Starchild Trilogy #3]
> 
> I am glad I read these so long ago that I can't recall much more
> than liking them.  Definitely sounds like a "my golden age" thing
> now.
> 
>> ( +++ 1/2 ) A Liaden Universe Constellation Vol 1 - Lee & Miller
> 
> I don't see this one in my library folder.  I need to remedy that,
> Liaden stuff is always welcome.  It's interesting that sometimes
> characters will intersect with the action in a "main" Liaden book
> and I'll think: It seems like those guys have their own story going
> on, and sometimes they do...
> 
>> ( +++ ) Mistress of the Catacombs - Drake [Lord of the Isles #4]
> 
> I believe I have one book left in this series.  Another one I need
> to get back to.  Cashel is possibly Drake's best character, or
> certainly the one you'd most want on your side.
> 
>> ( +++ 1/2 ) Sweep of the Heart - Andrews [Innkeeper Chronicles #5]
> 
> Another winner.  I hope we get a conclusion someday.  Parent-quest
> is conspicuously not done...
> 
>> Collection - The New Hugo Winners Volume II [Presented by Isaac Asimov]
> 
> Looking at the Toc, this is probably about where I started falling out of
> short fiction.

Very conspicuously not done.  The sister quest has been completed.

Lynn