egregious falling out and I Left Home in worse than a huff. Never To Return.
That’s why Volume 5, The Face of Chaos, is Hanseless and Andyless. Seemed a
dreadfully dull book to me….
(Of course I read it. I had to; another year later I came home to Sanctuary to
write a story in which Hanse split town; returning was necessary because fans
told me rumors that Lynn and Bob were discussing Secret Plans with Janet at the
World Fantasy Con: maybe going to kill Hanse or worse. It was a great homecoming
with the typical Sanctuary feast: Bob served up the fatted mongrel.)
So … we get along as all families do: usually. But not always.
For instance … I fully expected UPS to bring me a ticking package from Morris
after I killed Tempus’s god and power-source, Vashanka. See, science fiction
great Edmond Hamilton had a name for destroying planets; “World-Wrecker Ed,”
they called him…. That wasn’t big enough for me; / put the hit on a god.
(Besides, I’d birthed him. Now he’s in another universe, eking out a precarious
living selling hamsters to researchers.) God-Zapper Andy?
Well, no bomb came. Instead, Janet ignored my wicked ploy. She was busy writing
her Tempus novel. Beyond Sanctuary. They keep telling me that Vashanka has been
reborn as an infant. Hmp. Silly dam’ dodge, that; he isn’t even dead!-just to
keep alive a krrf-head whose body heals all wounds. (Donation Alphons Francois
de Sade should have thought of that. Such a person is the Perfect Victim, while
by the end of the Marquis’s Justine, she must have been covered all over in