Leto: I've only read Deathworld 2, but recently picked up the whole trilogy in an omnibus edition. Certainly not as much fun as the Stainless Stell Rat tales, but the 2nd book at least is great fun, and Jason DinAlt is a rogue as canny and selfish as you'd find anywhere in sf, even if the stories are a bit lightweight at times.
I finished Heinlein's 'To Sail Beyond the Sunset'. It was surprisingly painless, even fun at times. Even though RAH spends far too much time describing his heroine's bed-hopping activities, he also manages to play out an intriguing parallel history of the 20th century in the process, hint at some thrilling space-andtime-travel adventures (these are described in a rather curtailed manner, as the bulk of the book is given over to Maureen Smith's reminiscences of her past life). I didn't find the way he tried to tie in every story he'd ever written, all the way from his first oublsihed sf tale, Lifeline, as annoying as some have claimed - actually, it was so clear that he was doing this simply out of joy in story-weaving and a great love for all his fictional worlds, and this feeling is actually quite contagious.
A rather meandering novel, and peppered with too many genalogical minutiae, and free-sex excursions, but entertaining for all that, although you have to slog through the occasional bout of tedium.
I'm about halfway through Barker's Weaveowlrd. I'll probably pick up the Wolfe novel this weekend, and also start in on a re-read of The Etched CIty.
