From:	Tim Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Living material links
Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:11:22 EDT

On Sun, 13 Jul 1997 20:48:10 EDT John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM> writes:

>Ever read any of C.S. Friedman's books in the Dark Sun Trilogy? In
there,
>you could make a sacrifice (not necessarily a blood sacrifice, btw) to
>make magic more powerful, the extra power this granted you depended a
>great deal on the personal meaning the sacrificed item(s) held, for
>you or for the person involved. I'd say that a child would mean some
>seriously nasty magic if you used it that way <shudder>

And of course the last novel shows that it, the sacrifice, doesn't
always have to be LITERAL.

~Tim (.. that is one GOOD trilogy... "The Madness Season" gets a
pair-of-opposable-digits -vertical too.)