Aubria L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just want to say I am new to your whole body of work and I am thoroughly fascinated with the Miles Vorkosigan series! I just started reading the first book in the series after I followed the recommendation of another author I enjoy! I am already on bk 5 after mere weeks! Just marvelous! Thank you so much for sharing your creative and ingenious mind with the world! Which of your series do you suggest I read next?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Glad you are enjoying my work!
As for what to pick next, it will entirely depend on what aspects you are reading for, or against. Readers are all over the map on this question, reasonably enough I suppose as my stories are not all the same.
I have two fantasy series, the World of the Five Gods and The Sharing Knife. (Plus the lonely stand-alone The Spirit Ring.) The first series is medievaloid-European in inspiration, and the stories are spread around its world but not always closely connected. The second is inspired by, but is NOT, the pre-industrial American Midwest, quite deliberately not lords 'n swords, but deliberately with a strong romance backbone, and is one continuous story in 4 books.
The first starts with The Curse of Chalion; the second with The Sharing Knife: Beguilement. I'd say your best shot is to try the first in each, and see if either grabs you. Good luck!
Ta, L.
PS -- My standard reading-order guide is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Due for another update, I see...
As for what to pick next, it will entirely depend on what aspects you are reading for, or against. Readers are all over the map on this question, reasonably enough I suppose as my stories are not all the same.
I have two fantasy series, the World of the Five Gods and The Sharing Knife. (Plus the lonely stand-alone The Spirit Ring.) The first series is medievaloid-European in inspiration, and the stories are spread around its world but not always closely connected. The second is inspired by, but is NOT, the pre-industrial American Midwest, quite deliberately not lords 'n swords, but deliberately with a strong romance backbone, and is one continuous story in 4 books.
The first starts with The Curse of Chalion; the second with The Sharing Knife: Beguilement. I'd say your best shot is to try the first in each, and see if either grabs you. Good luck!
Ta, L.
PS -- My standard reading-order guide is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Due for another update, I see...
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Zachary Jacobi
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
So often in fantasy that involves deities, they feel like rote miracle-granting machines. D&D takes this to absurd heights, where even the miracle of resurrection can be had at the cost of a couple of diamonds and a short prayer. Chalion is different. It's almost Kierkegaardian in it's theology; the gods are beautiful, absurd, and incomprehensible. I wept from the beauty of it. How did you create Chalion's theology?
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