From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 21:33:38 MST
--- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote,
> > As Meredith McMaster Bujold's character Aral Vorkosigan said,
> "Guard
> > your honor closely, and let your reputation fall where it may."
>
> For some reason, I found these books hard to get through from a
> readability
> standpoint, but I enjoyed the stories and ideas in them very much.
I made a mistake. It is Lois McMaster Bujold, not Merideth (don't know
where that came from).
Lois seems to write in a way that demands you slow down and pay
attention. I've read each of her novels several times. She is very
heavy in characterization, which is unusual in much SF.
I do find much of her universe completely implausible. For example,
Jackson's Whole should either have devolved into a lump of grey goo or
else sublimed, since it is the only place, apparently, where truly
event horizon technologies are allowed to be developed.
Secondly, she describes the Cetagandan Empire as the home of the
posthumanists. An outright autarchy.
Thirdly, that there would be so many human worlds full of absolutely
normal human beings, and an absence of individuals at varying levels of
advancement along a rather steep technological event horizon
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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