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[nineveh_uk]

Where can I buy a copy of Winterfair Gifts without buying Miles in Love?

Where would you recommend I start my parents on Bujold? I am convinced they'd like them, but my mother seems never to have read any SF, and my father seems virulently allergic to it. They are otherwise open-minded readers who like Patrick O'Brien and Sayers, and I'm convinced they'd like Bujold if only they could open it in the first place. Would Komarr be impractical for my mother, who enjoys Heyer?

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Seen in a remaindered bookshop at lunchtime, a book on Finnish cooking. I let it stay remaindered - any book that thinks beestings is commonly obtainable anywhere there's dairy farming (hands up if you are not a dairy farmer and have ever heard of it) is not a book that I want to rely on serving me edible food.

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[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

In the anthology it first appeared in. It's real title escapes me, but it should have been called, "Winterfair Gifts and some stories you wouldn't normally have bought".

*checks*

Ah, yes. "Irresistible Forces"

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Winterfair Gifts and some stories you wouldn't normally have bought

I admire your turn of phrase. I bought Irresistible Forces thinking 'Ah, a Bujold story and a chance to see whether some other authors I've heard of are my kind of thing!' but the only other story I really enjoyed was the Jennifer Roberson one, and I already knew that I liked some of the things Jennifer Roberson writes and was less keen on others, so it was all a bit of a wash-out from that point of view.

It just seemed like a genuinely odd choice of stories to bundle together - are there really that many people who like stories with an angel for a hero and cutesy descriptions of heaven and futuristics full of people ham-fistedly discussing Monty Python and stories set in the 1500s, as well as LMB?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I admire your turn of phrase.

I confess I swiped it from somewhere (although I can;t remember where).

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It's still a good one.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Short story anthologies are so often like that. One by e.g. Terry Pratchett and a bunch by a group of authors that you are about to discover why you have never read.