Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!barryg From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: In Medias Res F&SF Message-ID: <2443@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 10:04:42 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.2443 Posted: Wed Nov 6 10:04:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 06:37:24 EST References: <438@drutx.UUCP> Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 9 JHEREG and YENDI both have for me the feeling of starting in the middle of ongoing action. (I still think Brust should write a prequel to Yendi.) So does Anderson's OPERATION CHAOS and Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT. Of course, you can also get this effect by picking up a serial in the middle. I know lots of people who started the Skylark books with SKYLARK OF VALERON, which is a VERY in medias res beginning -- not to mention leaving you unsure for several chapters of who the hero is. --Lee Gold