E.J. Xavier
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you considered (or more to the point would you consider offering an ebook boxed set/s of the Vorkosiverse? I read many but not all of them years ago, and find myself wishing I could fill in the blanks. After finishing your latest (fantastic btw) I realized I'd love to just reread the series. I'd be very interested in an ebook box set or two with those spiffy new covers you showed recently.
Lois McMaster Bujold
No such plans at this time.
I'm not sure I actually see the point of e-boxed sets, when all the e-titles of a series are equally and simultaneously e-available. For paper books, boxed sets circumvent book vendors' maddening habit of not having all the books, or the earlier books, available on the shelves simultaneously, so that anyone's attention that is caught, say, by Book #4 is thwarted from starting at the beginning and so doesn't start at all. E-vendors, with their infinite virtual shelf space, don't have that problem in the first place, thankfully.
So any reader can fill in the blanks any time, in any order, a la carte.
E-boxed sets, which are in effect e-omnibuses, have the opposite problem of readers complaining that they'd bought such-and-such a title previously, and why should they have to pay for it twice, or the worse one of mistaking the omnibus for a new title, ditto. I think it's safer just to put all the books out as coherently as possible (hence the new e-cover treatments), and let readers choose for themselves.
For reading order and the Did-I-get-them-all? questions, there's this:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Everyone please feel free to pass this link along.
Ta, L.
No such plans at this time.
I'm not sure I actually see the point of e-boxed sets, when all the e-titles of a series are equally and simultaneously e-available. For paper books, boxed sets circumvent book vendors' maddening habit of not having all the books, or the earlier books, available on the shelves simultaneously, so that anyone's attention that is caught, say, by Book #4 is thwarted from starting at the beginning and so doesn't start at all. E-vendors, with their infinite virtual shelf space, don't have that problem in the first place, thankfully.
So any reader can fill in the blanks any time, in any order, a la carte.
E-boxed sets, which are in effect e-omnibuses, have the opposite problem of readers complaining that they'd bought such-and-such a title previously, and why should they have to pay for it twice, or the worse one of mistaking the omnibus for a new title, ditto. I think it's safer just to put all the books out as coherently as possible (hence the new e-cover treatments), and let readers choose for themselves.
For reading order and the Did-I-get-them-all? questions, there's this:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/...
Everyone please feel free to pass this link along.
Ta, L.
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Stephanie Hill
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi, Lois! I just wanted to reach out to thank you so much for your amazing books. I read Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls back in high school, and I liked them, but I'm rereading them now as an adult and fully appreciating them in ways that are new. Thank you for writing books that stand the test of time. Curse of Chalion is magnificent and a breath of fresh air! Hope you don't mind me thanking in your questions?
Pax Oncel
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
(but I think by saying you weren’t sure what Moravian meant you already answered my question. Sorry! I just could not stop thinking about a planet that seems very Christian in their makeup and yet were so radically socially progressive about gender and sex, and the herm population always made me think of them. question mark to satisfy the ask-field-robot)?
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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