"Ah,
sounds like Tb42,
our current band, is warming up.... While
you wait, let me get you a drink!"
--Sin, Your Proprietor (along with Tank the Furzel,
the official drink inspector)
Ever
wonder just how you might be portrayed if you were a character
in one of Linnea Sinclair’s fun, action-packed science
fiction romances? Would you be as enterprising as Trilby
Elliot, as brilliant as Admiral Branden Kel-Paten, or
as devious as Gabriel Ross ‘Sully’ Sullivan?
Or maybe you’d have the dedication of Captain Gillie
Davre?
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Hi
Linnea,
I have a question about furzels. Why are furzels the only
thing the Ved can't reproduce? Also, do furzels pick which
humans they want to protect?
Looking
forward to your upcoming new books about Sully and Chaz
and Phillip.
Liz
Semkiu
Well,
hi, Liz! Great to see you in the Bar. Your question relates
to my Games of Command, which just won the PEARL
award for the Best Science Fiction Romance of 2007. But
even though I wrote the book, that doesn't mean I know
all the answers. So I'll have to have someone who knows
a lot more than I do answer your question. Hey, Doc Eden!
Do you have a minute to answer Liz's question?
Doc
Eden puts down her cup of Orange Garden tea and hurries
over. "Talk about furzels? I love to talk about
furzels. But as to the first part of your question,
Liz--why the Ved can't emulate furzels--that's still
something we're trying to find out. On your world,
you have a lizard known as a chameleon. Now, the chameleon
can change it's coloration to blend into the background.
But only to an extent. It can match the greens and
browns of leaves, for example. But if you put it on
a pink polka-dot carpet, it wouldn't turn pink polka
dots. So it may be that the Ved's abilities are limited
by natural selection. Or it may have something to
do with the fact that furzels are one of the few natural
enemies of the Ved. Again, nature has checks and balances.
One of those may be the Ved being unable to emulate
a furzel. Something has to limit a Ved's powers.
"As to how furzels pick their humans, they feel
it's predestiny, though they don't use those exact
words. You know they 'speak' more in pictures and
scents. The best I could find out from Reilly was
a feeling of 'always you, only you.' But again, that's
a rough translation. It is something Jace and I have
been working on, though. So it's terrific that you
asked!"
~Linnea
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