PS, also read Bellwether, as per Ginger above. It is great. You will be laughing at duct tape and angels the rest of your life.
Also to be reading Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, which are also great.
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
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."
Jessica - Apr 09, 2007 7:26:20 am PDT #2485 of 28175
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ginger - Apr 09, 2007 7:31:29 am PDT #2486 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
You will be laughing at duct tape and angels the rest of your life.
And fairies, Barbie, team-building and Robert Browning.
Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2007 7:35:28 am PDT #2487 of 28175
brillig
Is there a firm listing of the proper story order of the the Vorkosigan books? Are they written in order?
Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2007 7:37:10 am PDT #2488 of 28175
brillig
And fairies, Barbie, team-building and Robert Browning.
I've always laughed at team-building.
flea - Apr 09, 2007 7:38:00 am PDT #2489 of 28175
information libertarian
I read Bellwether out loud to my husband and he almost died laughing. Except I apparently did Flip so well he kept getting annoyed with me.
Steph L. - Apr 09, 2007 7:39:13 am PDT #2490 of 28175
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Okay. Have requested Shards of Honor and Bellwether from the library.
More updates as the situation develops.
ION, I'm thrilled that Libba Bray has a third book in the A Great and Terrible Beauty series on the way. Amazon says September 25.
And I think Sarah Monette's third Melusine novel is out this summer, too. While I'm not crazy about her world-building (I think it's unnecessarily too convoluted), the characters keep sticking in my brain, and I want to know what happens to them next.
Ginger - Apr 09, 2007 7:39:26 am PDT #2491 of 28175
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Barrayar was written later to fill in the backstory, but the rest are written in order.
-t - Apr 09, 2007 7:54:05 am PDT #2492 of 28175
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Is there a firm listing of the proper story order of the the Vorkosigan books?
There's a swell timeline at the end of many (all?) of them that includes the short stories and Falling Free and things that are just alluded to. A useful reference.
Gris - Apr 09, 2007 11:16:25 am PDT #2493 of 28175
Hey. New board.
All I know about Miles Vorkosigan is that AJ Hall wrote some crossover fic between her HP Lopiverse and the Vorkosiverse. Which were good.
That... is a very unhelpful answer, huh?
My literary ventures of the week have consisted of Uglies, a young adult SF dystopia along the lines of The Giver, and, now, Party Princess (the seventh book in the Princess Diaries series). Uglies was excellent, and i need to read the sequel stat. Party Princess is... pretty much exactly the same as the other PD books, which means silly and addictive as hell if you're into that very pink genre.
beth b - Apr 09, 2007 11:21:16 am PDT #2494 of 28175
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Uglies was ok. I haven't read The Pretties yet. But there are a lot of westerfield's other books that I really really like. Including Peeps , the vampire book.