Rachel
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I really enjoy the Penric series, but I am disappointed that I cannot seem to find them as a physical copy anywhere. Are you planning to release them all together at some point as a full novel? Is there some way I can get them as a paperback or hardcover copy?
Lois McMaster Bujold
You seem to have missed all my blog posts about Penric's Progress a collection of the first 3 novellas, released as a hardcover by Baen Books in January, and Penric's Travels, a collection of the next 3, upcoming in May (or thereabouts -- book distribution being disrupted just now. But it'll catch up eventually.)
Prior to that, there were all the Subterranean Press hardcover chapbooks of the individual novellas. "Penric's Demon" is long sold out, but most of the others are still floating around -- Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis still has most of them, signed, and does mail order. And, of course, they have plenty of copies of Penric's Progress. Dreamhaven Book & Comics also has some. Likewise Amazon and B&N.
You get them by ordering them -- waiting for them to spontaneously turn up at any particular bookstore is a crapshoot. Check the assorted websites.
Ta, L.
Prior to that, there were all the Subterranean Press hardcover chapbooks of the individual novellas. "Penric's Demon" is long sold out, but most of the others are still floating around -- Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis still has most of them, signed, and does mail order. And, of course, they have plenty of copies of Penric's Progress. Dreamhaven Book & Comics also has some. Likewise Amazon and B&N.
You get them by ordering them -- waiting for them to spontaneously turn up at any particular bookstore is a crapshoot. Check the assorted websites.
Ta, L.
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leona
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi, do you write in chronological order or just write which ever idea speaks out to you the most?
Jonathan Palfrey
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I'm rereading the Penric stories yet again, enjoyment undiminished, and it seems to me that Nikys has become a bit of an author's problem. Would you agree? Up to "The prisoner of Limnos" she was a full part of the story, but then her status changed, and the problem is what to do with her now. Although there's still plenty of room for more stories about Penric before he met her.
Shane Castle
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
When you were flogging your first ms around, did anyone advise you to use a non-feminine pen name? (e.g., like C. J. Cherryh, or perhaps even James Tiptree.) Nowadays, of course, nobody would dare suggest it. Or maybe so; there's J. K. Rowling as a recent example.
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