Bujold fans might like to know that Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is available as an e-ARC from Baen's ebooks site for $15.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Jun 25, 2012 6:01:49 pm PDT #19203 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
-t - Jun 25, 2012 6:56:28 pm PDT #19204 of 28342
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, thank you! Mmmm, not waiting for release date, that's nice.
Jessica - Jun 26, 2012 3:04:05 am PDT #19205 of 28342
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oooh! New Ivan!
Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 5:21:56 am PDT #19206 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I'm halfway through. It's very fun, and (as a friend on my flist noted) very fannish. Also rather heteronormative, with the exception of By being definitely identified as bi.
But one of the more entertaining bits is Barrayar and Ivan's friends-and-relations all being viewed and commented on by an outside party with no previous knowledge of them. This is something Bujold has done before, but it continues to entertain.
erikaj - Jun 26, 2012 9:07:54 am PDT #19207 of 28342
Always Anti-fascist!
My Kos post about Elmore Leonard. [link]
Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 11:54:30 am PDT #19208 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Update on Captain Vorpatril's Alliance: it's really quite endearing. Loads of character stuff, some quite interesting infodumps about Barrayaran history, some funny bits, and now the second half of the plot has kicked in.
Quite wisely, I think, Bujold has shipped Miles off to Sergyar so Ivan will mostly have to deal with the complications on his own.
But what's interesting is that the pace is much more, well, Ivan-speed. It's not all mad breakneck racing about the way it is with Miles. Things have time to percolate. I rather like it.
Jesse - Jun 26, 2012 12:00:55 pm PDT #19209 of 28342
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was just talking to my coworker who has, in the past couple of months, read all of the Vorkosigan books to date (not including this one), and I got all excited about all of the side stories that could be told. So many people doing so many other things while Miles was the main character!
Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 12:10:55 pm PDT #19210 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So many people doing so many other things while Miles was the main character!
Oh, indeed. You have Cordelia & Aral, and Mark and Kareen, and Alys & Simon (dear me, it is rather heteronormative, isn't it?), and Ivan and By and Gregor; the Durona collective; Duv Galeni; the various Koudelka gals... plus all the other worlds: Beta, Jackson's Whole, Escobar and Sergyar and Tau Ceta. And the Dendarii, of course.
It's actually a pretty rich world for ficwriting, and there has been some great stuff written (although most of it is AU or Jossed).
Ginger - Jun 26, 2012 12:12:06 pm PDT #19211 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm so torn. I always buy Bujold's books in hardcover on the release date, because her books have meant so much to me that I feel I owe it to her. But it's not coming out until November...
Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 12:12:43 pm PDT #19212 of 28342
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Well, I'm sure she'd get the money for this: it's not a pirated copy or anything.