Janet Kagan's Hellspark is on Kindle

I love that book. I didn't find out it existed until after she passed away, so it was a nice surprise to get to read something "new" (to me) by her. Although I'm still sad, because apparently she had a sequel plot in mind, but the publisher didn't want a particular character to reappear and she did, so she never wrote it since she couldn't write it her way. I wish I could have read that book.

If there are books or the dreams of books in the afterlife, maybe it will be waiting for me one day, but otherwise - this is the book I have, in that world, and that's it.

But re-reading it raised one of my original confusions, and at the same time, another "hey wait a minute" hit me.

So first: this is a very good book, and if you enjoy first-contact stories, or sci-fi "anthropology" type things, or quirks of human interaction, you might like it quite a lot. I would suggest not reading my further comments before reading the book if you're at all tempted to read it...although I won't be spoilering, or even mentioning, the two "official" mysteries in the book. I will, on the other hand, be thoroughly spoilering one of the character development threads, because in no way can I talk about the "hey wait a minute" without doing so.

( Herein lie spoilers. )

Things I wonder....

How Deliria: Miracle Season would have ended. We played parts 1-4, and then I think we were at the con once when the man running it wasn't, and - we haven't made it to GenCon since. I suspect he's long since stopped running them, but I do wish I'd found out how sections 5-6 played.