Dear Bernard,

We met once at UCLA and I am still an avid fan. Just read your Q &A in January’s ‘Quarterdeck’ . Just wanted to say that making your acquaintance was and will always be one of my highlight moments, I ,too, find ‘The Warlord ‘ series to be  my favorite of your series, I am just writing to say thanks for the many many years you have brought the highest quality of entertainment and art that I could ever have hoped for, and I wish you and yours well. Can’t wait for the next Hookton novel or Saxon Tales. Just wondering do you ever think about using the ancestors of of characters from say ‘the Warlord series’ in novels of a later time period?  I know you did it briefly in the Starbuck stories but I can’t recall elsewhere.

Turhan Poyadue