I'm going to make myself immensely popular by saying that I read the first two (or three?) Alicia Jones and the first two Celia Winters and would generally recommend to just look for a different author altogether :| But if I had to go with something I'd pick Celia. Thanks. Anyway, it's a dystopian ...

What's the best Harrison book to sample first?

Yay!

Speaking of inspiration, I'm re-reading Discipline 3: Persist at the moment. They're almost at the doughnut shop. You have this whole food thing running through many of your books, Dale. More than once it has tempted me to run to my kitchen, especially throughout Infected . It's pretty evil. Delicio...

Where I live people look forward to sweet potato pie rather than pumpkin pie for Turkey Day. Not that it makes a difference to me. I've literally never come across a pie worthy of my scorn. Although I can't recommend it as a lifestyle choice, even if it is delicious. On that note, YA has caused me t...

Yay! I just knew this whole typing thing would eventually be good for something!

Excellent, especially if "things" includes "pie." I like pie.

/worries if he's too easy to please...

Oh. Well that's different. But was addressed in the books. Most of the command line people died because they went insane and had to be put down.... I wasn't talking about the slave line's sanity, necessarily, but rather the fact that they are dependent to some extent on both the sanity and discreti...

I didn't say anything about killing them, so much as them simply not surviving. Remember that there were many ancients, and only a few of them survived. Out of the mix of survivors most were not slave line. They seem to be heavy in warrior and command. Tor was the only slave line we know of in the n...

All true, of course. But I guess I was really referring Brown and Green. It goes to the point that they managed to survive everything, despite being slave line. That doesn't mean stupid at all, but given how smitten they were with Julie, and therefore how vulnerable they'd be to Doris, it would figu...