Race and Breaking Plausibility : comments [Science Fiction]

When did she say that? I'm a regular on the list, but I must have missed that particular post...

I believe she's said it in interviews. I'm not on the ML: too much volume.

She was asked at Dragon*Con this year whether there would be more Miles books, and she said she'd rather work on something else for a while.

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Well, that doesn't mean there won't be another Miles book; just not yet. I do seem to recall her saying she wanted to work on a fourth book in the Chalion series, which is something I'd love to see.

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The way she put it had a strong undercurrent of "don't hold your breath." (There's also the hinting she's given that the next 'worst thing' that could happen to Miles is Aral's death, and she isn't too eager to write that book.)

But yeah, another Chalion book would be nice.

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Need more Chalion fix here, want to see what she does with the Mother and the Father. Not at all eager here to see Cordelia a widow.

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Ah, more Chalion would be delightful. However, I'm glad that she's taken a break from that world. The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls were exemplary books, but I felt that she fell a little short on The Hallowed Hunt.

To me, The Hallowed Hunt felt like a fantasy adventure book that wanted to be a romance novel. I wouldn't be too surprised if The Hallowed Hunt was written during a period where she'd rather have been working on the first Sharing Knife book.

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I believe she said something to that effect in an interview or Q&A session at Dragon*Con (or elsewhere), actually. And that Civil Campaign was written when she wanted to be working on a Chalion book.

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That explains so much! Glad to know my theory about The Hallowed Hunt was correct.

It also explains why Civil Campaign, although fun, read more like fanfic from the Vorkosigan universe rather than something like Memory or Cordelia's Honor. By which I mean it was well-written and a fun romp for her established fans, but it didn't feel driven by the kind of concept and character exploration that are central to the earlier Vorkosigan novels.

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She's been talking about possibly focusing on one of those gods in the next Chalion book, since she hasn't really had one centred around the gods themselves yet. I'm looking forward to it.

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Aral's death would definitely be hard one to do, considering I think that she's implied that Cordelia would return to Beta colony after his death. Losing those two pillars of the series would be a hard emotional void to fill.

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