Mercedes Lackey
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Search complete. 4 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Mercedes Lackey".
Oct 7, 2026
speaker_2HOST
[lips smack] And finally, we saw a massive coordinated push for what I'm calling urban expansion.
speaker_2HOST
Joshua returned to the thread with a massive multi-paragraph recommendation for Mercedes Lackey's Real World Universe.
speaker_3HOST
Joshua essentially dropped a whole collegiate syllabus in the comments.
speaker_2HOST
Truly.
KatieHOST
This, this falls into that category for me.
KatieHOST
Um, there's a book by Mercedes Lackey that I love called Brightly Burning that falls into that category for a lot of people, too.
KatieHOST
It's so visceral.
KatieHOST
The...
Kit CaelstoGUEST
I discovered, after I got my first job at about 14, I walked into Kmart, so I just dated myself, found a book with a horse and a really cute guy on the cover.
Kit CaelstoGUEST
And I w- you know, being 14, I was like, "I wanna read that." It was Mercedes Lackey's book, Magic's Pawn.
Katherine GrantHOST
Mm.
Kit CaelstoGUEST
And that completely introduced me to the world of fantasy, and I was hooked.
Oct 2 · 1 Mention
Melissa OlthoffGUEST
Like Anne McCaffrey's, like The Ship Who Sang, The Ship Who Dared.
Melissa OlthoffGUEST
And, um, you had Anne McCaffrey working with, at the time, baby authors like S.M. Stirling, like Jody Lynn Nye and Mercedes Lackey, and you had the, that senior and junior author relationship, where it was other authors getting invited to play in somebody else's universe.
Melissa OlthoffGUEST
So Bill Fawcett called me, and he's like, "Hey-" So you know Steve's, uh, alt history series, and I'm sitting here going, "Oh man, I'm not an alt history writer.
Melissa OlthoffGUEST
Oh no, oh no," and then he's like, "We're gonna do Romans in space in mil-sci-fi." I'm like, "Yes, I'm in."