Rereading Lois McMaster Bujold, with earworms

[msminlr]

My current Box-O-Books brought home for rereading includes all of Bujold's that I have in paperback, which means the whole Vorkosigan saga except Cryoburn and Capt. Vorpatril's Alliance, plus the Chalion books and The Spirit Ring.

I started the V-verse saga actually with Falling Free, which I can remember reading originally when it was serialized

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[markbernstein]

"Falling Free" does earworm me with Tom Smith's song of the same name, from his album "Plugged". But then, I was a backup singer on that track. :)

[msminlr]

If I have that particular album of Tom's it is in the cassette format, which means it is in Storage at present. In any event, I don't recall that song; *is* it based on Bujold's story or does it just share the title?

[markbernstein]

Oh, it's very much based on the novel. :)

[msminlr]

Been there, listened to it. Obviously from the same corner of Tom's brain as produced "A Boy and His Frog".

And if Tom's tune is too complicated for a single voice to manage, I realized about halfway through that most of it also scans to Cat Faber's "Acts of Creation".

[tigertoy]

I can't recall having heard Aral's Nightmare but the idea makes me shudder.

I'm not sure I like Miles until he becomes more mature in the last few books, but he's certainly fun to watch.

[msminlr]

Yeah, that's the "horrified fascination" part.

ISTR The song was published in the GaFilk songbook the year Bujold was the Super Secret Guest. Which means it is *also* currently in Storage...

[starcat_jewel]

Yeah. There are a couple of the younger-Miles books I haven't read, and now that I'm used to the mature version I'm not sure I want to try.

Interestingly, I have the same problem about Curse of Chalion. Someone lent me Paladin of Souls, and now I don't really want to read about those characters being younger.

[msminlr]

Those books are in the same box as the Vorkosigan lot so I'll be re-reading them before I take the box back to Storage. ISTR from the first read, Paladin of Souls follows-on very shortly after The Curse of Chalion so the age difference is minimal.