Mal ,'Serenity'
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."
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.
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I think she's also RLC, isn't she?
Yes, Betsy. RLC changed her fic pseud to JF within the last few years.
Yup. She's all three women.
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.
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?)
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.
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.
What characterises fanfic with all original characters and settings? Is it to do with the language, the tropes, the what?