Last call on novel meme plus fandom news

[eldritchhobbit]

Last call on guesses for my Novel First Line Meme (three lines are still unaccounted for). I'll identify any remaining unknown quotes tomorrow morning. Thanks to those who participated!

For Star Wars fans, there's an interesting new essay entitled "Goodbye, Jedi, And Good Riddance" that's worth a look, as it suggests that the Jedi deserve their fate in Return of the Sith. Thanks to wiccanotwicked for alerting me to this piece.

For fans of Lost, I highly recommend the article "Boone: Why We Care" at Revolution Science Fiction. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never look at Lost quite the same way again.

And last but certainly not least, heartfelt thanks to some Star Trek writers whose works I greatly admire and enjoy, namely seemag, rocky_t, kellychambliss, and alex_voy, for their kind comments during the ASC Awards for stories by Morgan Stuart. Special thanks to seemag for her terrific leadership with the awards.

A quote for the day:

"If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?"
Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity

Comments

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links! I look forward to checking it all out. And another brilliant quote. I haven't read anything by Lois McMaster Bujold, but I think I will have to after seeing a few different quotes on your journal that I've really liked.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

You bet! :) And I can't recommend Lois McMaster Bujold, either her science fiction or her fantasy, highly enough. So glad you like the quotes!

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Could I be a bother and ask if you have any recommendations?

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Oh my, of course! Her science fiction series is called the Vorkosigan series. It's simply brilliant, to my way of thinking. I'd highly recommend reading it beginning with SHards of Honor and Barrayar; also, the two are now combined into a single volume called Cordelia's Honor, with a new introduction by LMB. There are more than a dozen books in the series, and I think the best are actually some of the later ones. She's one of the only authors whose works I always preorder, no matter what.

Her newer works are fantasy, and though I prefer SF to F, I adore her Chalion works, as well. There are two novels now with a third on the way. I highly recommend the first, The Curse of Chalion. (In fact, that's the book I kept referencing when I went off on my "Qui-Gon as pure vessel" meditations last year.)

Yell if you have any questions. A friend of mine nearly had to force-feed me one of LMB novels before I took the plunge, and I am so grateful that she did. I'd be glad to follow up on any of this if you like!

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

I forgot to come back and check this thread, sorry for my late reply!

Thank you so much for the recommendations! I am definitely going to see if I can hunt any of these down. I'll let you know if I do! :)