Things I did not know

[james_davis_nicoll]

Apparently in their current version, the skin of Drow who convert to good becomes lighter coloured while the "blackness of the drow's skin has become a permanent sign of their depravity". The Curse of the Lamanites angle seems to have been introduced by self-confessed Canadian author Lisa Smedman in The Lady Penitent.

Nicked from arielstarshadow

Comments

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

Not knowing what Ex Machina is (though a quick Google search suggests it's the Tri-Stat Cyberpunk book), what attribute of the cover makes you say that?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The woman's breasts on the cover actually look like women's breasts. They're even subject to deformation due to the combination of their mechanical properties and the effects of gravity.