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@PhotonQyv Your display name made me think of a book I read 30 years ago and have not often thought of. Is it by any chance a reference to a Piers Anthony novel?

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@soaklord It is indeed, B.o.a.S.T was the series (:*

I tooted about it the other day, actually, but you're the first to spot it without prompting (:*

@PhotonQyv Yup, that's the one I was thinking of. I read those books avidly when I was MUCH younger. Well done with the obscure reference. Even trying to verify by searching for characters in that series came up with blanks. My own is a reference to another often comedic SciFi writer.

@soaklord *smiles* Honestly, struggling to think, Aspirin was comedy fantasy, so obvious would be Adams, Pratchett was fantasy as was Holt, hmm.... Asimov wrote the odd comedy. If I still had access to my library DB I'd look up the genre and see (;*

@PhotonQyv Fantasy is a better description. It's a reference to the milk man in Pratchett's world, Mr. Soak. Soak was taken when I wanted to use it. So too was Mr. Soak. Due to his eventual reveal, I figured adding lord to the end work. And it works well with my bias that all creativity is an act of chaos.