For those of you who are interested, Lois McMaster Bujold read chapter 1 of CyroBurn at Dragoncon 2009. You can find it on youtube here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. Please note that it does not come out until late next year, so if you don't want advance knowledge, don't watch ( Read more... )

I have Bujold's new book. *gloats* It's the fourth in her Sharing Knife series, and now that I've read Horizon I can see why she wanted to call the second duology The Wide Green World.

Currently on the second read through and really enjoying it. Horizon concludes the story in a way that Legacy didn't and couldn't. I'm satisfied by the ending ( Read more... )

Who is Miles Vorkosigan?"

Before I forget to pass this on, people who like Bujold's Vorkosigan saga should look at this What I did on my summer vacation, to which I got the link from someone on the Bujold ML ( Read more... )

So my book arrived! The Sharing Knife: Beguilment by Lois McMaster Bujold. It's lots of fun - there's this joy that seems to sing through it, even in the hard parts. Which makes me wonder what is going to happen to the pair of them in the sequal Legacy. I like both of the main characters, and for a change, for Bujold, that is, the book is ( Read more... )

For the bujold_fic ficathon. I am never ever planning to write Bujold fic again. It's too hard.

Title: Cattilara and the Demon
Author: nishatalitha
Recipiant: silver05
Rating: PG
Notes: Silver05 wondered what was in the letter Iselle wrote to Bergon in The Curse of Chalion. Unfortunately, Iselle stayed stubbornly silent on that matter, but Silver05 also suggested that a ( Read more... )

I want to write a gushing entry about chapter five of A Deeper Season, the Vorkosigan fic I mentioned a couple of days ago. However, I really need to go to bed, because I have work tomorrow. Suffice to say that it is intense, brilliantly written, and wonderfully in character. It felt like Herself's writing, on first read, and still does in many ( Read more... )