A fan gives me some good input.

I got this e-mail earlier this week. The fan agreed to let me post our exchange. I think you all will enjoy it.

Let me first say I really enjoy you Kris Longnife series of books. I bought book one about 2 weeks ago at a borders store closing and read it all that day. I have just finished book 8 today and I wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the series very much so far. I do have just one tiny issue, throughout the series you keep referring to the shipwide announcement system as "MC1″(except book 8 you called in "M1C". Actually both are incorrect. The shipwide announcement system is the "1MC". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1MC

Also, wouldn't the engineering crew be called "nukes" and not "snipes" since the are running reactors and not diesel or gas engines. I was a nuke for 6 years and was never called a snipe, that was what we called the non-nuke boats engineering crews.

Again let me say I am really enjoying this series and can't wait for book 9 and already have it pre-ordered for my kindle app.

Here's my reply.

Thanks for the correction on 1MC. I'll try to not make that mistake again, but, sadly, I don't get to correct the errors of my youth. Author have to put up with real life stuff, too.

As for the nukes vs snipes, I wasn't aware of the dividing line between them. Yes, I knew that the sub drivers were called nukes, but I'd heard the nuke operators on the carriers occasionally referred to snipes as well as nukes.

And beside, the power plants on my ships are thermonuclear, and would you want to be called a thermonuke?

But there's a stronger reason I'm avoiding nukes. As I've referred to, nuclear technology and information is banned, hidden away and under the strongest of interdicts. When Kris makes an occasional reference to the old nastiness of the bloody twentieth, she says atomics, a phrase Bob Heinlein used from the '40s.

Daring, the next book coming out in October 25, will introduce Kris and Humanity to a whole new level of nastiness and what happens from here on in is anyone's guess (even mine), so who knows nukes may come back in fashion.