I don't even ask for her to be a POV character! I don't even want her to have, like, her own career (okay, I totally do, but I am willing to compromise on that).
This! This! Where the heck is an Ekaterin novel? My teenage feminism as fostered by LMB's novels is raging at the handling of female characters.
Along those lines, I am cheering Rish picking up a By. But I noticed that I was more sensitive to his loss/abandonment of his Barrayaran life than Tej's similar loss of her Jacksonian life. Talk about unrecognized assumptions.
Re: JW: I'm ok with this not being the book for that, but I wonder whether she's ever going to write gritty in this universe again.
This, exactly. Based on the last three Vorkosigan (ish) novels, and the fantasy novels, I'm thinking no. MD and Memory have elements of Protagonist is Wrong that LMB doesn't seem interested in exploring at the moment, see particularly the way the Jeeves concept is raised and dropped like a hot potato in CVA. Bonus points for the family dynamics of the Baronne's even and odd "children". Oh, I could go on and on about the ghem Esif genetic fiddling and concepts of family/us.
(Related to "Protagonist is Wrong", stories I'd like which Bujold will never write, are a.) the Father's book in the Five Gods universe, which may or may not be the same as b.) a 5G novel exploring the Quadrene heresy's side.)
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This! This! Where the heck is an Ekaterin novel? My teenage feminism as fostered by LMB's novels is raging at the handling of female characters.
Along those lines, I am cheering Rish picking up a By. But I noticed that I was more sensitive to his loss/abandonment of his Barrayaran life than Tej's similar loss of her Jacksonian life. Talk about unrecognized assumptions.
Re: JW: I'm ok with this not being the book for that, but I wonder whether she's ever going to write gritty in this universe again.
This, exactly. Based on the last three Vorkosigan (ish) novels, and the fantasy novels, I'm thinking no. MD and Memory have elements of Protagonist is Wrong that LMB doesn't seem interested in exploring at the moment, see particularly the way the Jeeves concept is raised and dropped like a hot potato in CVA. Bonus points for the family dynamics of the Baronne's even and odd "children". Oh, I could go on and on about the ghem Esif genetic fiddling and concepts of family/us.
(Related to "Protagonist is Wrong", stories I'd like which Bujold will never write, are a.) the Father's book in the Five Gods universe, which may or may not be the same as b.) a 5G novel exploring the Quadrene heresy's side.)