barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) (11/06/85)
JHEREG and YENDI both have for me the feeling of starting in the middle of ongoing action. (I still think Brust should write a prequel to Yendi.) So does Anderson's OPERATION CHAOS and Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT. Of course, you can also get this effect by picking up a serial in the middle. I know lots of people who started the Skylark books with SKYLARK OF VALERON, which is a VERY in medias res beginning -- not to mention leaving you unsure for several chapters of who the hero is. --Lee Gold