An author I can recommend. I even own a copy of "The Tapestry Warriors" in hardcover I almost never buy hardcover (I buy too many books to afford hardcovers), but it never came out in paperback. She's done two series. The Torin series is an alien contact novel with a marooned human trying to get back to his expedition in a early-technological world with marsupial sapients. The alien culture and interactions between the two cultures are well done. The Rulers of Hylor series is a quite good fantasy. Each book is about the trials of the heir of a different kingdom. All three novels intertwine (the three protagonists are cousins), with the brilliant military victory in one novel is told as a stunning defeat in the next. The different points of view, and the very different personalities and goals of the three heros combine to make more than the separate stories. Cherry Wilder has also written several good short stories, I hope someone publishes a collection soon. as == Originally published using this pen name /John arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com departmentofredundancydepartment-ly ---------------------------------------------------------------- Grimm [Lockett], Cherry Barbara [New Zealand, Germany, 9/3/1930- ] [as Cherry Wilder] The Rulers of Hylor Series: A Princess of the Chameln [1984] Yorath the Wolf [1984] The Summer's King [1986] The Torin Series: The Luck of Brin's Five [1977] The Nearest Fire [1980] The Tapestry Warriors [1983] Second Nature [1982] Cruel Designs [1988]