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• How do the spaceship drives work? And what about the underlying 'Jump mechanics'?

>Date: Tue, 21 Sep 93 19:14:01 -0400
>From: "Nancy Silberstein" <silbersteinn@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Cherryhlist/Thanks, Jo

Seth, chronologically the next books I would read are HEAVY TIME and 
HELLBURNER; these two go together and should be read in that sequence.  
Next read RIMRUNNER. MERCHANTER'S LUCK doesn't fit into a time line quite 
as snugly as these three but takes place at about the same time. 
After that I would read 40,000 IN GEHENNA (a book I personally found very 
difficult) and perhaps SERPENT'S REACH.  Finally the three volumes of 
CYTEEN which are really one book.  I found CYTEEN difficult, too, but much 
more worth the struggle.  Some of your comments on DS apply to CYTEEN, I 
think.  

The three FADING SUN books are in the Union/Alliance universe, but far, far 
into the future.  

Jo, I enjoyed (enjoyed?) your discussion of the mechanics of space flight.  
Did I understand it?  No-o-o.  Will I reread it and try to formulate 
pertinent questions?  Yes.  However, I wanted you to know that your picture 
of a space dimple hit me between the eyes.  THAT, I thought, is a gravity 
well!  

Apparently I'm not ready for words yet, but I can handle pictures.  Got any 
more?

njs  21-SEP-1993 14:30