This is gonna be a fun get. The Paksenarrion novels are some of my favorite high fantasy reads; Elizabeth Moon gets paladins. I have some of the stories in those anthologies, but I’m looking forward to having them all in one convenient place.
#commissionearned
I had another book picked, but the author turned out to be crazy. So let’s go with Elizabeth Moon’s Trading in Danger, which is the first book in her Bujoldian(?) science fiction series Vatta’s War. Go ahead and guess what it’s about! …Yup. Family, responsibility, and having to be the one who the universe apparently assigned the job of cleaning up all of this nonsense. Oh, and there’s a war going on.
Like I said: ‘Bujoldian.’
The Deed of Paksenarrion is a compliation of a fantasy trilogy by Elizabeth Moon about one Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter. It is probably one of the best High Fantasy series ever written: unlike most other modern works in this genre (some of which are quite good, actually), Ms. Moon takes the tropes of High Fantasy quite seriously, and respects what they do and do not mean. There may be better books that try to imagine what it’s like to be a no-fooling paladin; but I can’t think of one, offhand.
And so, adieu to The Stand.
Marque and Reprisal (Vatta’s War) is actually the second book in Elizabeth Moon’s space opera/war/trade series, but I’m still waiting for the first one in the mail and the reviews all seem to think that this was a better book than the first one anyway. It’s space opera; it’s a good read; and I’m not really all that amused at what recently happened to Elizabeth Moon… despite the fact that she doesn’t like people like me very much. But that shades into politics.
And so we remove Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook from the oven, and allow it to cool.
If you’re a Lefty, you have to be a Lefty all the way. You don’t get to be heretical* on things like the 9/11 Mosque and expect to keep your GoH status at a major feminist SF convention. You just don’t. And it doesn’t matter how much you qualify your statements**, either: once you’re past the heresy line, that’s it.
Well, live and learn, right? It’s not like many of those people read military science fiction
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
*Although having to call that position ‘heretical’ is a insult to Giordano Bruno.
**Or going for crowd-pleasing by sneering at the Right. Notice which side’s more sympathetic to her on this? Yup, the Tea Partiers and the libertarians.
