{"id":127,"date":"2002-04-13T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2002-04-13T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=127"},"modified":"2002-04-13T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2002-04-13T22:04:24","slug":"bujold_lois_mcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/04\/bujold_lois_mcm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bujold, Lois McMaster: (112) Komarr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"85004514\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_85004514\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I wanted to read something that I knew I&#8217;d like, and since the new Vorkosigan novel is coming out at the start of May, I thought this would be a good time to re-read <strong><cite>Komarr<\/cite> by Lois McMaster Bujold<\/strong>. I only have three things to add to <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/reviews\/komarr.html\">my earlier review<\/a> of it. First, it has possibly my favorite reference to a past event of the series: &#8220;He thought about the last time he&#8217;d been fishing.&#8221; Second, Miles remains &#8220;Vorkosigan&#8221; in Ekaterin&#8217;s mind up through the end; it will be interesting to see when in <cite>A Civil Campaign<\/cite> he gets first-name treatment in her thoughts. Third, though <cite>Komarr<\/cite> and <cite>A Civil Campaign<\/cite> together do have an obvious spiritual kinship with <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/sayers_dorothy_1\/\"><cite>Strong Poison<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/11\/sayers_dorothy\/\"><cite>Gaudy Night<\/cite><\/a> [1], Miles is much less an ass here than Peter was there, and Ekaterin comes out in better shape than Harriet does\u2014which makes sense, else Bujold couldn&#8217;t have skipped the intervening Wimsey\/Vane books.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Alas, the forthcoming book is called <cite>Diplomatic Immunity<\/cite>, not <cite>Auditor&#8217;s Honeymoon<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I wanted to read something that I knew I&#8217;d like, and since the new Vorkosigan novel is coming out at the start of May, I thought this would be a good time to re-read Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold. I only have three things to add to my earlier review of it. First, it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2002\/04\/bujold_lois_mcm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bujold, Lois McMaster: (112) Komarr&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15,32],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","category-vorkosigan-series","tag-bujold-lois-mcmaster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}