The LMB publishes again
Jan. 12th, 2024 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenwoodsideLois McMaster Bujold has a new Penric and Desdemona story available: Demon Daughter.
Joy. After she published a volume of family history then (by her standards) made a writing pause, I was worried she was going to stop forever. But no, I shouldn't have doubted, she's back withmy next hit more.
I bet baby Jesus would look much happier in the infant and virgin portraits if he'd been given a set of the complete works of LMB instead of a load of myrrh. We see his tubby little face frowning, thinking: "Do you spell it with two rrs or one? And what sound value should I give the y? Also, ominous, much?"
Instead he could have been listening to his mam reading aloud from Mirror Dance and learning about clones in a future's future.
Joy. After she published a volume of family history then (by her standards) made a writing pause, I was worried she was going to stop forever. But no, I shouldn't have doubted, she's back with
I bet baby Jesus would look much happier in the infant and virgin portraits if he'd been given a set of the complete works of LMB instead of a load of myrrh. We see his tubby little face frowning, thinking: "Do you spell it with two rrs or one? And what sound value should I give the y? Also, ominous, much?"
Instead he could have been listening to his mam reading aloud from Mirror Dance and learning about clones in a future's future.
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Date: 2024-01-12 08:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-12 08:54 pm (UTC)She tends to write well-plotted, well-characterised adventure stories with the power to stir the emotions but also with a sense of humour. Great books to disappear into. At the same time, I'm underselling them because they're so much more than that and so much smarter.
There are roughly two main branches to her work:
i) The Miles Vorkosigan books: sci fi set in the far distant future that likes to play with genres -- comedy of manners and horror both deserve mentions alongside space opera. The main character of many of the books, Miles, is brilliant and driven but also, by the standards of his society, crippled and consequently suspect. But he also has a background of social privilege, and many of the characters he interacts with are at the top of their hierarchies. I started with the novella The Mountains of Mourning which worked for me, but was on average a little darker and low-key than the rest of the series.
There will be websites recommending a sensible reading order. Or, knowing fandom and the internet, possibly a hundred different one true reading orders. :)
ii) The fantasy books stemming from The Curse of Chalion set in the late medieval/renaissance-ish World of the Five Gods. These are even less unified than the Vorkosigan books with different installments taking place several hundred years apart. It's even spawned its own sub-series, the Penric and Desdemona novellas. I think Curse of Chalion is the easiest place to start. On the other hand, for lighter/shorter reading you could just go straight to Penric's Demon.
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Date: 2024-01-12 08:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-12 10:00 pm (UTC)Obviously didn't hand my fangirl card in back when I passed thirty.
XD Neither did I!
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Date: 2024-01-12 10:03 pm (UTC)SQUEEEE!!!
/irony (maybe)