If I wanted to get the kids (18 and 21, currently reading Brandon Sanderson aloud to each other) into Bujold, what’s my starting point?
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flea - Jan 17, 2025 9:48:32 am PST #28136 of 28146
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bennett - Jan 17, 2025 10:11:53 am PST #28137 of 28146
Much as I love Cordelia's stories, I'd start with Miles' - Warrior's Apprentice. He's more their age.
-t - Jan 17, 2025 10:14:54 am PST #28138 of 28146
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Oh, huh, I am somewhat surprised to find I don't have an obvious answer. Penric is the series I am most in love with, and I think they probably are best read in order, so maybe Penric's Demon?
For Vorkosigans, jeez, what is a good entry point? I really enjoyed my internally chronological readthrough but I don't think that's a good way to get introduced. Hm.
Consuela - Jan 17, 2025 10:42:31 am PST #28139 of 28146
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I second The Warrior's Apprentice; you can pick up enough from context to see what's going on, and it's got some good narrative drive. Then if they want they can go backwards to Shards of Honor and Barrayar. (I admit that Barrayar is one of my all-time faves; Cordelia is such a badass but not in an obvious way.)
I haven't read the Sharing Knife novels, so I don't know if they are a good entry.
Consuela - Jan 17, 2025 10:43:17 am PST #28140 of 28146
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I'm listening to City of Bones by Martha Wells on Hoopla. It's better than I remember it being, given that it was one of her earliest novels.
-t - Jan 17, 2025 11:06:42 am PST #28141 of 28146
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It took me a couple of runs at the Sharing Knife series to get into it. I did eventually like it well enough, but not as much as her other stuff and I don't remember much about it.
-t - Jan 17, 2025 11:14:36 am PST #28142 of 28146
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I've been seeing updated/revised editions of some of those early works, is City of Bones one of those? No idea how much they are actually changed
Consuela - Jan 17, 2025 12:55:06 pm PST #28143 of 28146
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't know if this is the revised version of CoB. I know she's releasing a revised version of Wheel of the Infinite, which I quite liked in the original form.
Calli - Jan 17, 2025 6:27:02 pm PST #28144 of 28146
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I’ve started A Court of Thorns and Roses, as my sister and niece are both into the series and I want to talk about it with them. I don’t love it—there’s something missing, to me. Humor? Irony? But the world building is really interesting and I can see why it’s popular.
-t - Jan 19, 2025 11:23:54 am PST #28145 of 28146
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At the end of the Comfort Reads panel thing today, Kingfisher mentioned the new edition of Swordheart that is coming out and said the publisher bought the trilogy, so two more books!