Civil Campaign , A Vorkosigan Adventure, by Lois McMaster Bujold, Baen paperback, 2000. King Kelson's Bride A Novel of the Deryni by Katherine Kurtz, DAW hardcover, 2000. For months now, I have been trolling the airwaves and riffling through piles of books, magazine articles and other printed forms, listening to conversations between strangers at the mall, people-watching, and analyzing the choices the news media have been making. I can't recall a time like this in the last five decades that I've been watching trends. I have been chagrinned at my failure to spot what has to be obvious.
Trends are, after all, big .
They should be hard to miss. The year 2000 defeated me. Then it all became crystal clear. A Mirror For Observers is a winner of the International Fantasy Award, and well deserving of the honor. Millennia ago, Martians moved from their dying planet to ours and proceeded to observe our development, hoping we would reach a point where contact could be made.