Gelis
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! I wanted to thank you first, you are one of my favourite authors. I discovered that I have trouble introducing miles to new readers. Cordelia's Honor works with women, but they want a Cordelia book after. Warriors Apprentice- a friend said, fun read, but she did not crave for the next book. it really had me thinking. Maybe Memory is a good start for readers who shy away from space opera?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, I wouldn't rec starting with Memory, simply because so much of the impact of the book rests on what went before. I don't think there is a sure-fire Vorkosiverse starter-book -- readers' tastes are too different, and the books are not all the same. The series does build by accumulation, and I have tried to make each volume work as a stand-alone, although that has become harder over time.
Borders of Infinity is a sort of sampler-platter, and short, so that might be worth trying.
I could ask readers to chime in, here, though I'm pretty sure it would not result in consensus.
Ta, L.
Borders of Infinity is a sort of sampler-platter, and short, so that might be worth trying.
I could ask readers to chime in, here, though I'm pretty sure it would not result in consensus.
Ta, L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois McMaster Bujold, First of all, in my household, my father regarded you as the best that SciFi had to offer and it was stories of Miles retold to me as an asthmatic child in the ER, for the umpteenth time impatiently breathing away through a nebuliser cursing myself and my asthma for millionth time, that place you upon so high a pedestal. Was Dubauer based upon a real life person?
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