Mr. Prosser's Secret

In the opening chapters of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, we are introduced (briefly, since the Earth is about to be destroyed) to one Mr. L. Prosser, who has a frustrating encounter with Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect. Mr. Prosser has a remarkable secret, of which even he is unaware, but which Adams milks for considerable humor.

Now read this.

"Medalon"

Medalon, by Jennifer Fallon, was one of the freebie books I acquired at CascadiaCon; I doubt I would have picked it up otherwise. It's an acceptable story, nothing special but reasonably entertaining. I'm not going to do a genuine review, but some aspects of the history and cosmology of the world depicted interest me, and I'll talk about them under the cut.

( Medalon )

The book is the first of a series. (Sigh. Aren't they all, these days?) It's interesting enough that I'll probably continue, but the main thing I'm interested in is the resolution of the theological/metaphysical questions it raises.

Editing

Does anyone else feel compelled to go back and edit old posts for typos, grammatical clumsiness, and the like? Or am I just obsessive that way?