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Just wishful thinking. I am re-reading the series, again (more than a dozen times). FTR I give "Mountains of Mourning" ebook to anyone who will take it, as it is a book that was found on Baen's Free List. No other ebooks have been given away, even though Fictiowise gave me a disc will all books sans copy-protection. However, my wife, son, and I have gifted softcover books for this series more than a dozen times. (And... I still have your signature on my PocketPC eReader.)
Science fiction and fantasy novels seem to me to be the ones most likely to exist in their own time and space, in a sort of inverse proportion to how much of the current world the author weaves into the story. I found your works about 8 years ago and am happy to read them over and over, even those that had been written gosh knows how many years before. Other favorites of mine have not fared quite so well. One author who set her scifi series in a near future has had to scramble a bit to incorporate technology shifts which make reading the earlier novels jarring. Older fantasy and scifi that I used to really enjoy have suffered from shifts of attitude in the culture that make me sort of cringe. Historical novels are a little more palatable that way, you can't fault Georgette Heyer for incorporating first cousin romances when that was acceptable at the time, but certainly the strength of her writing keeps you going past that first oh yuck. Anyway, I think it is a testament to your writing that so far, rereading your work remains a full and happy transport to the world of the five gods or Barrayar, each time discovering new bits that are fully as engaging as my first experience.
The almost 70 me gets very different things than the 30s me did from your stories. Besides the pleasure from them are the unexpected insights into myself.
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Just wishful thinking. I am re-reading the series, again (more than a dozen times). FTR I give "Mountains of Mourning" ebook to anyone who will take it, as it is a book that was found on Baen's Free List. No other ebooks have been given away, even though Fictiowise gave me a disc will all books sans copy-protection. However, my wife, son, and I have gifted softcover books for this series more than a dozen times. (And... I still have your signature on my PocketPC eReader.)
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Science fiction and fantasy novels seem to me to be the ones most likely to exist in their own time and space, in a sort of inverse proportion to how much of the current world the author weaves into the story. I found your works about 8 years ago and am happy to read them over and over, even those that had been written gosh knows how many years before. Other favorites of mine have not fared quite so well. One author who set her scifi series in a near future has had to scramble a bit to incorporate technology shifts which make reading the earlier novels jarring. Older fantasy and scifi that I used to really enjoy have suffered from shifts of attitude in the culture that make me sort of cringe. Historical novels are a little more palatable that way, you can't fault Georgette Heyer for incorporating first cousin romances when that was acceptable at the time, but certainly the strength of her writing keeps you going past that first oh yuck. Anyway, I think it is a testament to your writing that so far, rereading your work remains a full and happy transport to the world of the five gods or Barrayar, each time discovering new bits that are fully as engaging as my first experience.
The almost 70 me gets very different things than the 30s me did from your stories. Besides the pleasure from them are the unexpected insights into myself.
