> Spoiler warning to anyone who hasn't read Heaven's > Reach!!
> And that's Alvin, Mudfoot, and Huck on Harathrurptra. > (Correct spelling anyone?) > Mudfoot can become VERY important if Harathrumta (Sp?) > has Rousit. In what way? By influencing Rousit in some way to be friendly to Clan Tymbrimi than their patrons are? I wouldn't hire Tytlal for my PR campaign, that's for sure. > Does anybody remember the Rousit? > > Contacting Aliens didn't. > > (The above is subject, of course, to Dr. Brin actually > making the Rousit clients of the Hoon. It wasn't that > clear in Heaven's Reach.) Buh wait, that isn't canon? I assumed they were confirmed Hoon clients. > 2. Did we ever find out why Gillian wanted a herd of > Glavers? > > They speak to hydrogen breathers, IIRC. Reading Contacting Aliens cleared that one up for me. Though I don't recall any glavers sitting in on her interview with the Transcendent being... then again maybe a few were sitting in a corner wordlessly chewing their cud or whatever glavers do. > (It > would also have made it possible for Dwer to take a > few back to Jijo, but I doubt David Brin would make > things so narratively "easy" for Jijo.) Oops, that comment of mine was about red rings, not glavers. But seriously, you'd think Lark would remember Asx's request to take the original red ring to the Sages, and try to get somebody to take some. > And Alvin could use the bio-life preservers in > his sailing business. Ahah yeah! Hoon can't swim so they might find those traeki scuba-gear rings handy. But then traeki were basically written as biological Swiss-army-knives for nearly every need... to the extent of producing the enzymes that make it possible for humans and maybe others to exist on Jijo without dying of malnutrition. It makes me wonder how the Path of Redemption folks plan on replacing that function once traeki are mindless dirt-eaters. ~E.S. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
