I read somewhere that DD was thinking about posting some interesting cut scenes from this book online. Did that happen? And if so, does anyone have a link?

From memory, there were two scenes mentioned: one scene to do with Kit, and one scene that cleared up exactly what Roshaun said on the moon. I'd really like to read those.

This was mentioned on the Future Plans page of the Errantry Concordance, and, as far as I can tell, nothing has yet come of it.

However, the promised 'out-takes' weren't just from WAW; I'm not even sure whether the bit with Kit—presumably you're thinking of "the things that Kit would have said to Nita (and once did) when there was enough time"—is necessarily from WAW (and "what Odin whispered in Baldur's ear before the pyre was lit" certainly isn't). For that matter, the bits with Dairine and Roshaun on the Moon could have just as easily been from WH.

Nevertheless, there will presumably be quite a lot from WAW, given that there are various items that we know didn't make it into the book: Among the various changes from the excerpts to the final product, the deletion of the scene with Nita on Filif's planet and Wellakh (still available here, courtesy of the Wayback Machine) is the most dramatic (in more ways than one). There are even a few other bits that came up on Out of Ambit that also didn't make it into the book: Lauralee mentions the "nobody comes past the heliopause" bit with Irina (first seen here), on the Future Plans talk page. There's also "Kit ... arguing with a cranky alien about the meaning of life, [and] Nita ... trying to rewrite the physical laws of a volume of space she really doesn't know enough about," from this post, which are somewhat more vague, and could thus have made their ways into the book in some form, though not one that I could easily discern.

Thanks for that. It's so hard to keep track of things here these days; I have nothing but respect for those of you who can manage it. And thanks for the links.

I think that Nita's rewriting of physical laws made its way into the book as the tampering with the power source for the mobile weapon thing in the Crossings.

0_0 *sucks up new Wellakh descriptions into the Great Vaccuum of Piper's Obesession*

whether the lines cut were necessary or not, it would still be nice tos ee htem...it's interesting to see how things were originally, at least in my oppinion....(and sometimes lines that would have been nice, though not necessary, ARE cut out)