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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I run a book club on reddit where we read a different book of yours every month. This month we are reading your short stories collected in the anthologies Proto Zoa and Dreamweaver's Dilemma (DD). It's just been pointed out to me that there isn't an eBook version of the DD anthology, which means eBook readers have no way to read the story "The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment". Can you help in any way?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Afraid not, if you mean getting it into e-format.
The story referred to, for those who are wondering, was my last piece of fanfiction (Sherlock Holmes, in this case), written somewhat out of the blue in my late 20s. I now think of it as the baby writer trying to peck her way out of the egg, not breaking through yet.
When, in the mid 90s, the SF convention Boskone, at which I was writer guest-of-honor, was putting together their traditional souvenir book of unpublished or other oddments from their GoHs, I didn't have many pieces of unpublished work, as I had done very few short stories after I turned pro, and they'd all (eventually) sold except for that very first novelette, "Dreamweaver's Dilemma". Scraping the barrel, I found the typescript of that fan story, missing its last page, and added it just to help fluff up things.
DD also contains the short story contents of the later Proto Zoa, a few early essays, an introduction by Lillian Stewart Carl some of which I think later got recycled into The Vorkosigan Companion, and some material from the NESFA editors.
The NESFA Press edition of this is still available in trade paperback, with a few copies sloshing around the used market. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamweavers-D... or sometimes Uncle Hugo's can get signed copies.
I consider the fanfic piece to be juvenilia, not part of my early pro work, or I'd have included it in Proto Zoa.
Ta, L.
Afraid not, if you mean getting it into e-format.
The story referred to, for those who are wondering, was my last piece of fanfiction (Sherlock Holmes, in this case), written somewhat out of the blue in my late 20s. I now think of it as the baby writer trying to peck her way out of the egg, not breaking through yet.
When, in the mid 90s, the SF convention Boskone, at which I was writer guest-of-honor, was putting together their traditional souvenir book of unpublished or other oddments from their GoHs, I didn't have many pieces of unpublished work, as I had done very few short stories after I turned pro, and they'd all (eventually) sold except for that very first novelette, "Dreamweaver's Dilemma". Scraping the barrel, I found the typescript of that fan story, missing its last page, and added it just to help fluff up things.
DD also contains the short story contents of the later Proto Zoa, a few early essays, an introduction by Lillian Stewart Carl some of which I think later got recycled into The Vorkosigan Companion, and some material from the NESFA editors.
The NESFA Press edition of this is still available in trade paperback, with a few copies sloshing around the used market. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamweavers-D... or sometimes Uncle Hugo's can get signed copies.
I consider the fanfic piece to be juvenilia, not part of my early pro work, or I'd have included it in Proto Zoa.
Ta, L.
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