I couldn't seem to comment on the latest post on Epic Fantasy, and I was too lazy, Andrew to look up your email.

I have a member suggestion for a new omnibus for the SFBC to get, epic fantasy: The King's Blades novels by Dave Duncan.I just finished the third, only, to my chagrin, to learn that the end of the story is back in the first novel, which I read years ago. This is a case where an omnibus would improve the books, since the reader could refer back to, in the same book, the first novel in the series to complete the story and explore the interconnections.

Paul: This is as good a place as any to leave suggestions for SFBC books; I see all of the comments -- and have to approve them, to keep the spam from creeping in -- so it works.

We offered the last two or three books in the "King's Blade" series as separate books when they were published, though we did miss the beginning. (I'm fuzzy on the specifics now, but I think the first three or four books told one more-or-less continuous story, and our club reader really didn't like the way it ended. As I recall, those books are also too fat to stick together in anything larger than 2-in-1s, which is a problem.) I'll add it to my list of member suggestions, but we don't do a whole lot of books of that kind (several years old but not "a classic"), since the demand for them is usually pretty low.