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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It contains two novellas which have never been published before: "Dreamweaver's Dilemma", "The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment" plus "Mountains of Mourning", three of Lois's previously uncollected short stories and four essays.
The book also includes an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold, a timeline of the Vorkosigan stories, genealogical notes, and other guides by the book's editor, Suford Lewis. The introduction is by Lois's childhood friend and writer Lillian Stewart Carl.
Contents:
Hegen Hub Wormhole Neighborhood
Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold
The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment
Barter
Garage Sale
The Hole Truth
Dreamweaver's Dilemma
The Mountains of Mourning
My First Novel (essay)
Beyond Genre Barriers (essay)
The Unsung Collaborator (essay)
Allegories of Change: The "New" Biotech in the Eye of Science Fiction [essay]
Biolog (biography)
Awards
American Bibliography
Answers: Lois McMaster Bujold is interviewed by Suford Lewis
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan: His Universe and Times
Timelines
Towards a Genealogy of Lord Miles Vorkosigan and Other Persons of Interest
A Pronunciation Guide to Names and Places
The book also includes an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold, a timeline of the Vorkosigan stories, genealogical notes, and other guides by the book's editor, Suford Lewis. The introduction is by Lois's childhood friend and writer Lillian Stewart Carl.
Contents:
Hegen Hub Wormhole Neighborhood
Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold
The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment
Barter
Garage Sale
The Hole Truth
Dreamweaver's Dilemma
The Mountains of Mourning
My First Novel (essay)
Beyond Genre Barriers (essay)
The Unsung Collaborator (essay)
Allegories of Change: The "New" Biotech in the Eye of Science Fiction [essay]
Biolog (biography)
Awards
American Bibliography
Answers: Lois McMaster Bujold is interviewed by Suford Lewis
Miles Naismith Vorkosigan: His Universe and Times
Timelines
Towards a Genealogy of Lord Miles Vorkosigan and Other Persons of Interest
A Pronunciation Guide to Names and Places
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128 of 133 people found the following review helpful
Recommended for Hard-Core LMB Fans Only
2 Oct 1997
Format:Paperback
Lois McMaster Bujold has a deservedly large following for her award-winning fiction, including "The Mountains of Mourning" novella in this collection. However, most of the short stories printed in this book have the unique ideas LMB fans expect from her fiction but are lacking the polish more recent books exhibit. Whatever this aggregate lacks in technical skill, it delivers entertainment with a quirky wit and a wide range of world building that readers of only the "Vorkosigan" universe would miss.</P> As a avid reader of LMB, I enjoy having this book in my collection but do not use it for "prosethelitizing" since I believe it suitable mostly for the LMB "fanatic". Would that I had spent this little ($12) for my copy! ;)
43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
A Bunch of Little Bujolds
7 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
Bujold doesn't do much short-format stuff, so if you like something under novel length and you have any taste at all--meaning you love Bujold--you need to pick up this book. If you're a Miles Vorkosigan fan--and we already posited your good taste--the book is essential. Strictly speaking, there's only one Vorkosigan story--"The Mountains of Mourning"--and you'll have that anyway in another Miles Vorkosigan collection, but there's invaluable material by Bujold on the writing of the early Vorkosigans, and some supplemental material--charts of the Wormhole Nexus, timelines, geneologies and such. That's not all by Bujold, but it is all intersting and helpful. Warning: this book is NOT the place to start. If you're not familiar with the estimable--and hyperactive--Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, buy the book anyway, but read the early Vorkosigans--SHARDS OF HONOR and WARRIOR'S APPRENTICE at least--before you read this one.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Collectors must
9 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is for the Bujold fanatic, and those who like short fiction. Interesting as the stories are, i think the essays by Lois are the best part.
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