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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."


Jesse - Sep 15, 2004 10:55:45 am PDT #5863 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

They've been releasing chronological (in the verse timeline) compendiums (is that what I mean? Multiple books in one volume), so you can get Shards of Honor and Barrayar together as Cordelia's Honor. These re-releases have a timeline in the back, too.


Jessica - Sep 15, 2004 10:56:11 am PDT #5864 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have never read any Bujold. What one should I start with?

The early ones have been republished a few times in various configurations -- I think the current "first" Vorkosigan book is Cordelia's Honor. (Though Miles himself doesn't appear until Young Miles.)

There's a complete list on Baen's website here.


Consuela - Sep 15, 2004 10:57:50 am PDT #5865 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

t cough Julie Fortune t cough


Betsy HP - Sep 15, 2004 10:58:19 am PDT #5866 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

I think she's also RLC, isn't she?


Consuela - Sep 15, 2004 10:59:43 am PDT #5867 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Yes, Betsy. RLC changed her fic pseud to JF within the last few years.


Betsy HP - Sep 15, 2004 11:00:07 am PDT #5868 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Yup. She's all three women.


Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2004 11:00:43 am PDT #5869 of 10002
brillig

I think that there was entirely too much time in between Swordspoint and it's sequel.

You mean, in story time? I agree. It barely counted as a sequel, more like a book in the same world. Very few of the events of the first book made an impact on the second book.


sumi - Sep 15, 2004 11:03:37 am PDT #5870 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

In real time and in story time.

It's not as if she'd been writing many many stories/books in that world (I mean, she hadn't had she?)


Jessica - Sep 15, 2004 11:06:45 am PDT #5871 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have a Vorkosigan question, actually -- are the compilations the full original books strung together, or are they re-edited into new books?

I ask because Miles Errant seems to have replaced Brothers in Arms and Mirror Dance, and it would be a shame to mess with those, because they're two of my favorites.


Jesse - Sep 15, 2004 11:08:31 am PDT #5872 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

As far as I can tell, they are the full original books just in a row. Not that I've read the originals. And the short stories/novellas are speparated, so they go in where they fit chonologically.