stephbg | Fledgling: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

"Read the Liaden Universe books," they said. "You'll love them."

Years passed; continents drifted. Liaden Liaden Liaden. Always in the back of my mind, but a victim of its own branding, because I could never remember who wrote the damn things so I couldn't look them up (whenever I thought to) at second-hand shops. So I have

leecetheartist to thank once again for addressing my failing education and/or inherent laziness.

In hindsight I now realise I have started in perhaps a strange place with my first Lee&Miller Liaden book, being an offshoot story by the name of Fledgling. It wasn't quite the spaceships-and-guns space opera I'd sort-of expected, although to be fair there were both spaceships and guns in the text. And Kung Fu!* And interesting but not shove-it-down-your-throat feminism in action.

I read it in a day. Am blind, but happy. And incoherent. Reminded me a bit of Joan Slonczewski.

Back catalogue, here I come!

(*) Not labelled as such but *bounce bounce bounce*