rec: a fun novella

[filkferengi]

A Bujold listie posted her first story here:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1049450/chapters/2099148

It's set during Hurricane Sandy, but the leads are fannish, so there're lots of Bujold & Pratchett moments. It's so immediately immersive, I read the whole thing while in the middle of rereading a Jennifer Crusie novel. There're family, friends, loyalty, and a tinge of O. Henry-ish magic. It's in chapters for easy reading, & I recommend it gleefully, acquisitively, & other fun filkferengi things.

:)

Comments

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

How do Bujold fans find each other? Is there an old fashioned list serv, or something?

I mean, other than on Sounis. That's how I read the books. BECAUSE OF YOU ALL AND I LOVE YOU BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE ME SO HAPPY.

[filkferengi]

The main mailing list, which has been going since [iirc] 1994, can be reached at www.dendarii.com . There's a link on the main page. That's Bujold's official site, so there're also links to other cool stuff, like author interviews, cover art for foreign editions, etc. There're also a couple of Bujold-themed comms on LJ that are intermittently active. Just pillage my profile page, for cool comms, Bujold fen, awesome authors, & filkers.

As for books that make you go "squee!", I'm assuming you mean both mwt *and* Bujold. There's certainly a gracious plenty of awesome to go around. A heaping helping, in fact, with no sand in it.

;)

[hazelwillow.livejournal.com]

Oh yay, thank you! I knew the fans were somewhere! I have read some of LMB's goodreads blog, but had not found the listserv on dendarii.com. What I really want is forums for discussion (or to read other people's discussion), so that is perfect.

Re: MWT, well, yes. MWT makes me go "squee!" too, obviously. Nothing will ever diminish that! I certainly have enough squee to go around. But I had already read the Queens Thief books (that were out) when I found Sounis, so Sounis didn't really influence me to read those, just made me very happy that I could connect with other people who had. :)

I meant that it was Sounisians like yourself who influenced me into reading Bujold, so most of the Bujold fans I know are on Sounis, and I wasn't sure where else to find them. Or where to initiate discussions of Bujold books, more accurately. Though I may do an OT Bujold discussion on here some time soon, I've been meaning to, just to thank y'all for influencing me to read them.

See, I'm a completely new Bujold fan. :D Because that happened really recently: just this summer I decided it was time to get into this series a lot of people seemed to like, so I found a copy of The Vor Game at the library. Then I got Young Miles and went back and read The Warrior's Apprentice (and further back for Cordelia's Honor) and on from there.

It has been been SO VERY EXCITING to get into a series this much. I haven't discovered a series I've loved this much since I was a kid. Really. The fact that I can love adult literature on this level is so, so exciting, because it hasn't really happened for me before.

[filkferengi]

Then you definitely need to get on the mailing-list & share that enthusiasm around instanter [as the lawyers say]. We've just finished up a discussion of _Falling Free_. Some folks are talking about wanting to do more quaddie discussion, while some others want to wait until after Christmas, being as it's such a busy time of year. New people are very cool, & put new spins on even the oldest topics. We see the wonder anew through the eyes of you.

:)

P. S. I recommend getting the list on digest, which are typically 10-20 messages bundled together. Some folks like getting individual messages, for easier filtering on different topics, but I like the convenience & de-cluttering of a digest.