Moira Mackinnon
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I am taking the Read Harder 2023 challenge, and the second task is to read your favourite author's favourite book, and you have long been my favourite author, so if you don't mind my asking, do you have a favourite book, or favourite author?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Wow, that's a hard question to answer. There have been many many books I've liked over the years, fewer I've liked over decades, fewer still that I'd want to reread right now, some authors that are lingering faves but have a lot of books or a tight series -- Pratchett, Heyer, Turner, Tolkien. But you need a book, not a bookcase. I'll assume you've read The Lord of the Rings, so let's go with, hm, Georgette Heyer's Cotillion. There are half-a-dozen titles of hers that are first tier that I could have offered instead.
Otherwise, Megan Whalen Turner's fantasy The Thief, but N.B., that's the first book of a 6-book series, and it takes the first three for the full reward to really slot in. (Not a hardship.)
Ta, L.
Otherwise, Megan Whalen Turner's fantasy The Thief, but N.B., that's the first book of a 6-book series, and it takes the first three for the full reward to really slot in. (Not a hardship.)
Ta, L.
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Lindamarie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I find that I am as curious as Duv Galeni about the crates of documents found in the bunker under Cockroach Central. Any chance that there would be a "Tales from the Ninth Satrapy" collection? -- Perhaps a story about Prince Xav and his Betan wife or a chance to get in the head of a young Piotyr? Thank you!
Steve
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you noticed? If you have read some of the "Rivers of London" series by Aaronovitch, you are aware that there really are multiple hidden rivers under London. They were once open rivers which have been built over or assigned to underground culverts. *Discover Magazine*, November/December 2021 issue, has an article by Natasha Khullar Relph, which explains how the city is bringing them back above ground again.
Del Ross
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you read Run with the Horsemen, by Ferrol Sams? The protagonist is Miles, by another name and in another time and place. Your characters (and those of Dr. Sams) are brilliant, surprising, and so endearing as to make the craziness of their lives seem reasonable. Thank you for sharing your great gift with me and, I guess, the rest of the world.
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