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Lois Pulled a Bait-and-Switch on Me

The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold

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  So, I am more than familiar with LMB’s two main series – The Vorkosigan Saga (Which is mostly a space opera), and her books set in the world of the Five Gods. (Which are a sort of semi-medieval fantasy.) What I’ve been slow to pick up though is her Sharing Knife series. Mostly because they are almost impossible to find in print! I’ve never stumbled on these books in a bookshop and had to go searching really hard across libraries to find a hard copy. So I have this search to thank for me briefly renewing my membership to […]

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5/27/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:16 |

New Vorkosigan Novella

The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

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I don’t think Lois McMaster Bujold has released a full-length novel since 2016’s Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, which I sort of read as a capstone to the Vorkosigan series. Since then, she seems to have been spending her time experimenting with self-publishing novellas. While I’ve found those to be mostly very good, they’ve all been set in the World of the Five Gods. So I’m really pleasantly surprised to see that she’s decided to duck back into the Vorkosigan universe after all! The Flowers of Vashnoi is set after Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, and happily, we’ve gotten Ekaterin back […]

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5/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

Unpretentious, brilliant, engaging sci-fi.

Young Miles (Vorkosigan Saga Omnibus #2) by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Two books into the Vorkosigan Saga, and I’m increasingly flabbergasted that it took me so long to read not only this series, but Bujold in general. These books are so competently written, and I want that understatement to be interpreted as laconic reverence, and not as an underhanded jab. The writing is uncomplicated and efficient, and is a real testament to the power of honestly good storytelling. A lot of sins can be forgiven by covering them in flowery, lyrical, and highly figurative prose. Bujold’s writing, on the other hand, offers itself bare; the characters speak plainly, the plot develops […]

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5/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

“You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.”

Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan Saga Omnibus #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The Vorkosigan Saga is one of those classic SF series that has been a little intimidating to me because there are so many books in the series, and the suggested reading order of the series is not the publication order, so it doesn’t naturally lend itself toward easily identifying the “next” book in the series. Cordelia’s Honor is actually an omnibus edition comprised of Shards of Honor (Vorkosigan #1) and Barrayar (Vorkosigan #7)(???) Here’s a short plot description from Goodreads for both of those: Shards of Honor – “When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade […]

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3/20/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Everyone is apparently legally required to review this book

Sleeping Beauties; Ethan of Athos by Stephen King; Owen King; Lois McMaster Bujold

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Sleeping Beauties – 3/5 – SPOILERS by the Way So this has a fable quality to it, obviously. But in a lot of ways, this is like an episode of Star Trek (a Q episode specifically), where the small town created King squared become a stand-in for all humanity. In the same way that the Starship Enterprise becomes the crucible for the humanity and morality of all mankind, the small town of Dooling, West Virginia becomes the crucible for all MAN-kind! Boom! Punned. But in a lot of ways what this book most reminds me of is the Queen of […]

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11/20/2017 's CBR9 Review No:462 |

Orientalism, Cultural Alienation, and Clones

Crocodile on the Sandbank; Ceremony; Brothers in Arms by Elizabeth Peters; Leslie Marmon Silko; Lois McMaster Bujold

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Crocodile on the Sandbank – 3/5 Stars If you haven’t read this book, it’s a little hard to fully understand how to categorize it. It’s very British-feeling, even though it’s written by an American author. It’s very British-loving to be sure. It reads almost like a mystery novel, but it’s not entirely a mystery. Instead, it’s most close to a few of the antecedents mentioned in the book itself. It styles itself after HR Haggard adventure tales, but in a less buxom/masculine kind of way. In a lot of ways, I think this makes it more like Arthur Conan Doyle, […]

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11/14/2017 's CBR9 Review No:456 |

Culture novels always reminds me of Lois McMaster Bujold, so then I read more of hers too.

Use of Weapons; The Warrior's Apprentice; Cetaganda; Borders of Infinity; The Vor Game; Falling Free by Iain M Banks; Lois McMaster Bujold

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Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks – 4/5 Stars So I have read a few of Iain M Banks’s books in the Culture series, including the weird little novella “The State of the Art” and each time I read one, I think about how much it feels like a blend of Vorkosigan and Hainish novels. It’s not the most literary writing, but I do find it quite literary, and it’s weird, but not crazy, and it’s usually really good at creating worlds and filling them up with a lot of different ideas and worlds. Player of Games is absolutely brilliant, […]

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9/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:365 |

Don’t Promote Your Troubles Beyond Your Rank

Penric's Mission and Mira's Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Continuing the adventures of Penric, the demon hosting priest of Lois McMaster Bujold’s World of the Five Gods, we have two more novellas: Penric’s Mission and Mira’s Last Dance. These are two very closely related stories, so much so that if felt more like reading on novel then reading two novellas. I enjoy these little stories quite a bit, so realizing that I had two unread stories to read was a treat. In Penric’s Mission, Penric is sent to spy on some duke from some place (I don’t really keep track of the where and what in this world, I […]

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7/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:66 |


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