Talk:Lois McMaster Bujold

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Discussion 3 Fivefold pathway now has an entry. 4 New picture available 5 End of series ? 6 links

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

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Needs references, but basically a B.

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 17:34, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion

Are you sure about Shards of Honor being set five years before Miles' birth? It ends with Cordelia and Aral getting married, and she became pregnant almost immediately afterwards (she tells Drou this in Barrayar when asked how she first knew she was pregnant). Unless the action in Shards of Honor lasts for a very long time, I think one year before Miles' birth would be closer.
Ekaterin 12:47, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The action in Shards of Honor does indeed last a very long time: there might well be a several-year lapse between the first meeting of Aral and Cordelia (can't recall whether on Escobar or Sergyar) and their marriage. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 11:08, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

I thought 'The Reader's Chair' went kaput a while back - can anyone confirm? (Re: audiobooks) -Martha 72.81.40.136 17:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fivefold pathway now has an entry.

The Fivefold Pathway of the Soul is now up as a place for notes and speculations on the religion LMB created for the Curse of Chalion/Paladin of Souls universe.

[edit] New picture available

There is a new picture available here, annotated thusly: Taken in August 2005, this one can be given away freely. I note that there was originally some small question over the licensing status of the current picture (to be found further down the same page) which was eventually solved. Even so it would be nice to keep up with the times: the current picture is almost a decade old. —Phil | Talk 11:08, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] End of series ?

Does anyone know if Diplomatic Immunity is supposed to be the end of the series? jg 07:04, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Per the Baen website (http://www.baen.com/cornerstone.htm), another book has been contracted. I thought I saw a 2008 release date somewhere, but it's not in this press release, so consider that unconfirmed. dafydd 00:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

The next Vorkosiverse book hasn't yet been started. Lois is finishing off the second two books in The Sharing Knife. I seriously doubt she'd allow more than one book to be published simultaneously, or even close to it. The fact that the books are in different genres, and published by different publishing houses, is irrelevant. Neither she nor her publishers will wish to take the chance that having more than one new book out will damage sales.

Of course, Lois's legion of fans would buy as many books as were published, whenever they come out, but she and her publishers will wish to maximize the sales of each and every book. Therefore, I suspect that 2009 is the earliest likely date of publication for the next Vorkosiverse book. There is one decided advantage: She writes much, much faster than she used to. Early in her career, it took nearly two years for each book. She now seems to finish books in less than a year. That is our (her fans') good fortune.

Of course, that means the other two prospective books in the Chalionverse are somewhere out in the nebulous future. [sigh] --Tygerbryght 22:26, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] links

Could someone please link the titles of the various novels with their respective entries in the Vorkosigan Saga article? Shoehorn 00:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

I added the links for all except Diplomatic Immunity, which is already linked to its own independent article. (Any clues as to why it warrants its own article, while the rest don't?) -Martha 72.81.40.136 17:43, 22 November 2006 (UTC)