[gaiusbaltar]

funny i thought polity agent was your last one?!

shows what i know - anyway although i waited to buy it (i do prefer your polity agent series to the spatterjay ones) i actually thought it was a bloody good read after that and wish i had bought it sooner!!

interesting twist with the prador - that could prove interesting in the future, especially given the polity already know the weakness of spatterjay-virus infected forms.....

i did miss the ai battleships (jack ketch, brutus) though - can't wait for line war now :-)

[nealasher]

Line War is the last one I have planned in the present Cormac sequence simply because the back-story, which has to be introduced with each new book in it, is becoming too intrusive. This is not to say that there might not be more Cormac books ... if he survives... I'm certainly not going to say 'never' and end up going the Sean Connery in a wig route.

[gaiusbaltar]

Line War is the last one I have planned in the present Cormac sequence simply because the back-story, which has to be introduced with each new book in it, is becoming too intrusive. This is not to say that there might not be more Cormac books ... if he survives... I'm certainly not going to say 'never' and end up going the Sean Connery in a wig route.

not to mention fan pressure for more...... i mean if the Connery succumbed then surely even you will.....?! ;-)

i like the back-story, though you are right, but it is like a reward for the fan who has followed the series in some respects.

that's why i was surprised you killed off the other agent character in polity agent (name escapes me right now) - after so much development in previous novels - i guess it proves everyone is expendable and he was starting to feel redundant in some respects, but he was in some respects the most human of all the major characters, and the one you could maybe do more with in the future....