Posted by Richard Chandler on August 07, 1997 at 04:43:05:
In Reply to: Vancean Authors: Shea and another posted by Rodger Whitlock on August 06, 1997 at 13:38:11:
: A couple of months ago (say, June 1997) I was reading a web site that metioned Michael Shea's "Quest for Simbilis".
: The writer went on to mention Shea's later book, Vancean in flavour if not in detail, and then named yet another author as perhaps being more successful than Shea in capturing the Vancean spirit.
This was "Nifft the Lean".
: Now, I cannot find this web page and stupidly didn't write down the name of that other author.
: Any suggestions, either for the author's name or the URL I've lost?
This is probably L. Warren Douglas with his "Arbiter" tales.
According to Douglas, the Arbiter is modelled on Vance's Connatic in the Alastor novels.