Madame the Editor asks a boon of the readers of Liad

[rolanni]

Many thanks to everyone who sent Hevelin cites!  We have them all now, and Madame the Editor sends her gratitude!  You guys are great.

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Advertent readers will have noticed that Dragon Ship bore a dual dedication -- to Anne McCaffrey and to Rusty Hevelin.

While many, many readers knew Anne and/or her work, fewer people knew Rusty, who was an active and impish presence in the science fiction community for 70 years.  Yes, you read that right.  Seventy years.

I met Rusty when his hair was still red (here's a picture from that era), at. . .CONfusion, I guess it was, in the late 1970s, and we'd run into him, in the way of con-going fandom, off and on over the years.  I think I last saw him to speak to at the Denver WorldCon in 2008, where he greeted me with, "Good to see you here!  Denvention THREE.  Who would have thought?"  (Here's what he looked like, then.)

By reason of having been a member of the community for so many years, Rusty, of course, knew everybody.  And it was this aspect of him that Steve and I chose to celebrate when we created Hevelin the norbear for the Liaden Universe®.

Now, for the last several years of his life, Rusty made his home with Joe and Gay Haldeman, who are Personages in the sf community -- and very nice people.  It is on behalf of the Haldemans that Madame the Editor asks her boon.

Madame would like to locate all of the sections in the Liaden books that feature Hevelin the norbear, in order to send them to the Haldemans.  I think this is lovely; I think they'll be amused.  Hell, I think Rusty would have been amused.

I will appoint myself as gathering-point.  What I would like to ask, adding my plea to Madame's is this:

If those who have the time would send to me, at rolanniATkorvalDOTcom, scenes in which Hevelin appears, I would very much appreciate it.

I will need the following information:

Title of Book (and if included in a omnibus edition)

Pages on which scene starts and ends (if paper) with a search phrase from the scene

Cut 'n paste of the scene itself (if electronic)

. . .I'm thinking that Hevelin first appears in Mouse and Dragon, and has parts in Saltation, (possibly) Ghost Ship, and Dragon Ship.  Please note that we are at this time only interested in Hevelin; other norbears need not apply.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Comments

[reedrover]

Hevelin first appears - literally - in the middle of chapter 20 of Mouse and Dragon

Quote:
“There was a small pause, then Daav went to one knee on the alley floor. He opened the top of the case, just a little, and peered inside. A furry hand crept over the edge, and gripped his finger.”

Excerpt From: Lee, Sharon. “Mouse and Dragon-ARC.” Baen Books, 2010-06-01T04:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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[epiphyllums.livejournal.com]

I have Kindle versions of Saltation, Ghost Ship and Dragon Ship. I'll send over the lines in email.

Re: Hevelin, Saltation and Dragon Ship

[disassembly_rsn]

Saltation, chapter 26, e-copy. His appearance begins with:
Tucked behind the tree in a very hard-to-see nest was a nearly colorless norbear, with wizened visage and slitted sleepy eyes. His appearance runs for a while in that chapter, in which he serves as a character reference for Theo.

Chapter 27, e-copy.
There was a snort, and Theo felt a tug at her knee - not a muscle strain or knee injury, but Hevelin, politely tapping, and pressing with his gripping paw. He's present and is referred to off and on until 'This pleased her as much as him.'

Those sections are it for Saltation, as far as I can see.

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Dragon Ship, chapter 21, e-copy. His appearance begins with
Peltzer's nap was taking place in his usual working chair - an actual acceleration couch upright in front of his control-board-like desk, as if he were still actively flying - and he slept with no snore, nor tremor, the old norbear, Hevelin, napping companionably against his leg.

Chapter 22. His appearance begins with The norbear was burbling up a storm, and Waitley was coming back at him.

Chapter 24. His appearance begins with Before she achieved the sanctum - in fact, just as she was passing the patch of verdant greenery that had in the past been a norbear residence - there came a sudden furry brown and orange streak-and-squeak from inside the minijungle, and a simultaneous apparition of knee-high rusty grey norbear royalty from within Peltzer's offices - Podesta and her grandsire, Hevelin.

Chapter 25. I'm sorry, gentles, talking about security, I'll need to take it, with Mr. Slayn and Hevelin authorized to stay.

Hevelin actually *appears* in chapter 25 with The reception area was a little larger than the inner office, but it was full to capacity with bodies - full over capacity, because Hevelin had trooped out with the rest of them, sticking so close to Theo that she all but had to sit on the reception desk to avoid stepping on him.

Chapter 28. They - or, more accurately, Guild Master Peltzer - had brought with them two...pets, and their environment.

Landed Alien also has a section...

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Starts about here...

She was about to rise again, when the fronds dipped more deeply than could be accounted for by the small breeze, and here came the elder norbear -- rust colored and thin of fur -- marching deliberately forward, through the fronds and out of the garden entirely, climbing familiarly onto Kara's knee.
"Hevelin, good-day to you," she said, stroking his head gently. He burbled and pushed into her fingers, demanding a more vigorous scrubbling.
Kara smiled and settled cross-legged to the floor, careful of the old norbear's balance, and rubbed his head with vigor. His pleased burbling seemed to leach her restlessness, and she sighed, half-closing her eyes.

and goes on a ways.