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From: Ahasuerus <ahasue...@email.com>

Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:35:39 -0700 (PDT)

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On Jul 4, 3:28 pm, jdnic...@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: [snip]

> 2 Expendable James Alan Gardner

> It's always hard on morale when explorers die. This society
> has tried to limit that problem by using people with off-putting
> disfigurements as explorers because nobody misses the ugly. Oddly,
> this is not a particularly nice society.

> Jim had seven books in the League of Peoples series, one
> Lara Croft tie-in and one collection. I am unaware of anything at
> book length since 2005's GRAVITY WELLS. [snip]

Back in 1995, Gardner wrote _Fire and Dust_, a PlaneScape novel, and,
when TSR rejected it (see http://www.thinkage.ca/~jim/ramble.html#firedust
for details), posted the text on the Web. It's the first item over on
http://www.deathstar.org/~krlipka/ps/fiction/local.html.

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