at last

one year waiting for this - for the time when joan vinge's first chapter of cat's saga was out of out-of-print status. already ordered on my regular bookshop, now two, three weeks of waiting. i don't know anything about the story, but the mere fact that it has been writen by the same mind that gave me the snow queen, world's end, the summer quen and tangled up in blue is promising enough. well, even though the current times are somewhat dark for me, it seems that there are some gains from our losses (even if not related at all, who cares anyway?). i just hope there will be some rights - any right - from my wrongs.