Burn Me Deadly which I just started reading.

     Meanwhile, he admitted he’d read some of my novels, so I asked him for a cover quote for the reissue of the Dushau Trilogy, and he sent this on twitter: “The Dushau Trilogy presents a fascinating alien race, and a vivid adventure story about identity and connection.”

     I mention it because lately they’ve been very twitchy about reviewers disclosing any conflict of interest, and this is a potential whopper. Bledsoe is a fan of my novels, and I always seem to love the books my fans write! So maybe my judgment is off here? Let me know!

     Still, I have to give my highest recommendation to The Sword-Edged Blonde. It is an Eddie LaCrosse novel, set in an apparently disconnected fantasy world. A Sword Jockey, Eddie LaCrosse (think Have Gun Will Travel) has abandoned his heritage as a baron to live hand-to-mouth as a sword-for-hire who incidentally is a crackerjack detective. This novel hands Eddie a very mysterious locked-room murder mystery, a

queen turned cannibal, and a woman everyone thinks is a goddess (for good reason), and he solves it even though it shakes the foundations of his notion of reality. You’ll have to stay sharp to keep up with him as he unravels the clues.

     I like LaCrosse as much as I like Harry Dresden of The Dresden Files novel and TV show. My kind of people.

     So you see mystery is in the blood of every Science Fiction fan (and writer). Scientists are a detective group mind investigating the substance of reality. Mystics are a group mind scientifically investigating the meaning of substance. Heisenberg discovered the observer changes the observed by observing. As our group minds investigate our reality, are we changing it? Neptune transits Pisces.

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