Thank you for not liking Barrayar . I don't entirely trust anybody who raves over Barrayar , and am mystified by Bujold's popularity. Jane Yolen's last communication promised that in her very next fax she would tell me all about the woman who tried to censor her wardrobe. But she never did. But as Tanya very rightly says, Wolfe is not providing a rigorous logic problem where you have all the data and just need to match them up.
Intuition is required.
Reportedly a Strokes 2 is in the offing. Lillian Hellman . Following my mention of Hellmann, John Foyster in Australia claimed to be annoyed by my abject failure to cite her chief claim to fame. I remember arguing with TS just once, at a Novacon after his The Road to Middle Earth had appeared. Jolly good book, I told him.