Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog, page 56
June 28, 2015
new Bujold interview
... is up here.
http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/featu...
Done by e-mail, worked up by the interviewer into this article. Fairly painless method, as interviews go.
Ta, L.
http://www.holdfastmagazine.com/featu...
Done by e-mail, worked up by the interviewer into this article. Fairly painless method, as interviews go.
Ta, L.
June 27, 2015
June 26, 2015
The Dish
Just rewatched The Dish tonight with a friend who hadn't seen it... my word but that's a good film. It would make a very interesting back-to-back movie night with Apollo 13, it occurs to me.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
June 24, 2015
new fantasy e-novella upcoming -- "Penric's Demon"
I am pleased to report that a new Chalion/World of the Five Gods novella is done, edited, and in for e-processing (which is still going to take a bit more time.) Now that the geographic scope of the tales is widening, I don't think I can go on calling it "the Chalion series", and the fannish acronym "5GU" (Five Gods Universe) takes too much explaining. "World of the Five Gods" covers more ground and seems reasonably self-explanatory.
Title is "Penric's Demon", length is 35,000 words, which makes it my longest novella so far. My prior novellas ran from 23k - 31k words. Having just looked them up to check, they may be of interest -- rounded,
"Winterfair Gifts" -- 23,500
"The Borders of Infinity" -- 26,750
"The Mountains of Mourning" -- 26,800
"Weatherman" -- 27,000
"Labyrinth" -- 31,000
"Penric's Demon" -- 35,000
The new tale has all-new characters in a new setting -- same gods, though. It was such fun to do something fresh!
Closer to the story going "live" on the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble/Nook and iTunes/iPad e-book stores, I plan to post the first scene. As soon as the links go live, I will post them.
As for the story itself, ah, well. More on that later. (Though the title is not one of those thematically obscure ones.)
Ta, L.
Title is "Penric's Demon", length is 35,000 words, which makes it my longest novella so far. My prior novellas ran from 23k - 31k words. Having just looked them up to check, they may be of interest -- rounded,
"Winterfair Gifts" -- 23,500
"The Borders of Infinity" -- 26,750
"The Mountains of Mourning" -- 26,800
"Weatherman" -- 27,000
"Labyrinth" -- 31,000
"Penric's Demon" -- 35,000
The new tale has all-new characters in a new setting -- same gods, though. It was such fun to do something fresh!
Closer to the story going "live" on the Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble/Nook and iTunes/iPad e-book stores, I plan to post the first scene. As soon as the links go live, I will post them.
As for the story itself, ah, well. More on that later. (Though the title is not one of those thematically obscure ones.)
Ta, L.
June 17, 2015
this sounds interesting...
Review of an anthology of very early SF stories by women.
https://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com...
A very welcome antidote to recent discourse that only manages to heroically "discover" women writers in SF by erasing (or, to be more fair, being ignorant of) all who went before, sigh. It has been rather startling to me to find myself having sometimes entered the age of erasure, in some conversations. I have generational-competition bio-social theories about this.
But I can remember Old People in my youth making tart remarks about young people imagining themselves the first to have discovered sex... Reasonable enough if you squint. A person entering young adulthood inevitably learns all sorts of things that they didn't know or that were withheld from them as a child (in part because they were a child.) The discovery of death is another, its impact I think underrated in all the haring off after puberty. But I digress.
Ta, L.
https://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com...
A very welcome antidote to recent discourse that only manages to heroically "discover" women writers in SF by erasing (or, to be more fair, being ignorant of) all who went before, sigh. It has been rather startling to me to find myself having sometimes entered the age of erasure, in some conversations. I have generational-competition bio-social theories about this.
But I can remember Old People in my youth making tart remarks about young people imagining themselves the first to have discovered sex... Reasonable enough if you squint. A person entering young adulthood inevitably learns all sorts of things that they didn't know or that were withheld from them as a child (in part because they were a child.) The discovery of death is another, its impact I think underrated in all the haring off after puberty. But I digress.
Ta, L.
June 11, 2015
more from the past
Someone found this on the internet and forwarded it to me -- a newspaper ad for the TV weather show my Dad used to do as a moonlighting job back in the 50s and 60s. (Three kids, and a professor's salary was not very high back then.)
A lot of people in central Ohio knew him from the show, who had no idea what his day job was. On a couple of occasions, I got to watch the show from the studio -- very different from today's TV descendants. Putting up the predictions consisted of writing tomorrow's forecast numbers with a squeaky flow pen on sheets of yellow (on the screen, B&W) paper pinned to a bulletin board.
Commercials were live as well. The most popular sponsor was Omar Bakery; they brought cakes and pies and what-not in to show off, which the stage crew demolished afterward. There was also a live "nature" show afterwards, with, iirc, Don Mack, who sometimes brought in live animals. Which a couple of times got loose in the studio -- once, an eagle. Dad said he was wondering, all the while he was doing his delivery under the hot lights, why the cameramen kept looking up to the ceiling and cringing...
His predictions were pretty good, being based on a profound understanding of the physics of weather. For a while, I was once told, some of the SAC pilots at nearby Lockbourne Air Force Base were calling him up in preference to their own service, till their security people caught up with them and made them stop.
Ta, L.
A lot of people in central Ohio knew him from the show, who had no idea what his day job was. On a couple of occasions, I got to watch the show from the studio -- very different from today's TV descendants. Putting up the predictions consisted of writing tomorrow's forecast numbers with a squeaky flow pen on sheets of yellow (on the screen, B&W) paper pinned to a bulletin board.
Commercials were live as well. The most popular sponsor was Omar Bakery; they brought cakes and pies and what-not in to show off, which the stage crew demolished afterward. There was also a live "nature" show afterwards, with, iirc, Don Mack, who sometimes brought in live animals. Which a couple of times got loose in the studio -- once, an eagle. Dad said he was wondering, all the while he was doing his delivery under the hot lights, why the cameramen kept looking up to the ceiling and cringing...
His predictions were pretty good, being based on a profound understanding of the physics of weather. For a while, I was once told, some of the SAC pilots at nearby Lockbourne Air Force Base were calling him up in preference to their own service, till their security people caught up with them and made them stop.
Ta, L.
May 25, 2015
Liavek lives!
Pat Wrede and Pamela Dean have put together a volume of their Liavek tales, some old, a few new.
https://ganxy.com/i/102292/patricia-c...
As there have been several new audiences cycle through since these last came out, this definitely qualifies for "everything old is made new again." Check it out!
Ta, L.
https://ganxy.com/i/102292/patricia-c...
As there have been several new audiences cycle through since these last came out, this definitely qualifies for "everything old is made new again." Check it out!
Ta, L.
May 16, 2015
podcast on futuretech
I have some bits in here...
http://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-meanwhi...
My parts are fragments from a longer phone interview on the general subject of in vitro gestation.
Ta, L.
http://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-meanwhi...
My parts are fragments from a longer phone interview on the general subject of in vitro gestation.
Ta, L.
May 14, 2015
if you're in Portland, OR...
...and know anyone who is interested in metals arts, do pass these links along.
https://www.facebook.com/RivetedRabbi...
https://www.facebook.com/RivetedRabbi...
Ta, L. Boosting the signal.
General Riveted Rabbit (which, phrased that way, suddenly sounds like a character from Watership Down) page here:
https://www.facebook.com/RivetedRabbi...
https://www.facebook.com/RivetedRabbi...
https://www.facebook.com/RivetedRabbi...
Ta, L. Boosting the signal.
General Riveted Rabbit (which, phrased that way, suddenly sounds like a character from Watership Down) page here:
https://www.facebook.com/RivetedRabbi...
May 11, 2015
sneak peek of Shards of Honor reprint
Here's a look at Baen's new cover for the trade paperback reprint of Shards of Honor, coming up November 3, 2015.
Art by Steve Youll.
I gave the text a fresh copy-edit, so I'm hoping, if they got the right file, that it, too, will be pretty clean.
Ta, L.
Art by Steve Youll.
I gave the text a fresh copy-edit, so I'm hoping, if they got the right file, that it, too, will be pretty clean.
Ta, L.
