Celtic
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois. I discovered you with Borders of Infinity and have read your books over the last 30 years as they've made their way to this side of the Atlantic. I've just re-read your earlier Vorkosigan books, from The Warrior's Apprentice to Memory, over the last fortnight. That's the first time I've read them in chronological order and it was fantastic. Thank you. Again. ps what's the best way to report a possible typo?
Lois McMaster Bujold
You're welcome!
Typos in printed books are beyond correction, natch. If it's a recent e-edition, well, maybe, but it involves putting my e-handler through a hassle. But there is space for typo reportage in the spoiler-discussion posts I put up on my blog after every new e-work. You could stick it in there, I suppose, even if it's not for the story under discussion. Keeping it all in one place is good. (Actual discussion of the stories is even better. I notice folks tend to get pretty distracted by minutia. Not sure just why.)
Ta, L.
Typos in printed books are beyond correction, natch. If it's a recent e-edition, well, maybe, but it involves putting my e-handler through a hassle. But there is space for typo reportage in the spoiler-discussion posts I put up on my blog after every new e-work. You could stick it in there, I suppose, even if it's not for the story under discussion. Keeping it all in one place is good. (Actual discussion of the stories is even better. I notice folks tend to get pretty distracted by minutia. Not sure just why.)
Ta, L.
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Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I read e-books on an iPad and mostly get them from iBooks. The indications of genre in 'Library' view are all over the place: "Penric's Demon" is labeled 'Historical', "Penric's Mission" and "Paladin of Souls" 'Epic', "The Curse of Chalion" 'Paranormal'. Of course many others are better labeled. I suppose that you are not the decider, but do you have any influence? And who does decide?
Joseph
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Regarding Barrayar's Time Of Isolation, if I've got the timeline about right: 0-90 years, still had a dwindling tech base; 100-400, Bloody Centuries, regression to Agricultural Age; 400-450, Unification under the Emperor and canonization of the Vor caste; 450-600, Golden Age of the Vor; ~600 years, End of the ToI; ~625, Cetagandan Invasion; ~645, Aral born, ~650, Barrayar freed. Roughly on target?
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