Fager is very interesting and he has said his books will be translated to English, but when, no one knows. If you want to have a taste, the first short story in Svenska kulter, “The Furies From Borås is available as a pdf on his FB-page. Ordinary teenage girls who likes dancing and fashion and makeup and sacrificing young boys to nameless horrors. (Borås is widely known as Sweden’s most boring city)
Ah, Bujold. The short answer is “OMG yes!” The long is that she’s one of my favourite authors ever and the Vorkosigan saga is excellent. The premises is a future where humans (no aliens in Bujold) has spread all over the universe and built a number of civilisation, all with their own cultures. In many ways she takes an idea and runs with is, seeing how it would develop on different planets. For example, the ability to genetically alter humans lead to hermaphrodites with equal rights on hyper-civilized Beta Colony, but custom-made sex slaves on Jackson’s Whole where money is the only law. Most of the books features Miles Vorkosigan who is born on Barrayar, an extremely patriarchal world which only just recently stopped killing babies with perceived mutations. And Miles is born handicapped; abnormally short and with extremely fragile bones. He is also a hyperactive genius, making him both a charming and exasperating hero.
He is the main character in most books, in the first he is seventeen, in the last (so far) late 30’s. So there is an internal chronology even if Bujold makes sure you can read the books out of order. I think they are worth reading in chronological order, though. The first two Shard of Honor and Barrayar is about Miles’ mother Cordelia who is from Beta Colony and marries a man from Barrayar. It’s something of a cultural collision, not so much with Miles’ father Aral, but the whole planet… The first book is Bujold’s debut book and a bit choppy at times, but still good. Her writing only gets better after that.
Apart from her knack of making up different cultures, she can write characters like no one else. Just about every person you meet are interesting. Miles and his parents. Miles cousin that-idiot-Ivan and his mother Lady Alys. His clone-brother Mark and his foster brother Emperor Gregor- I could happily read a book with any of those as the protagonist, and they are only examples. The books also varies when it comes to genre and encompass space opera, murder mysteries and romances.
And I babble. Sorry. But yes, I think they are well worth reading!
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Ah, Bujold. The short answer is “OMG yes!” The long is that she’s one of my favourite authors ever and the Vorkosigan saga is excellent. The premises is a future where humans (no aliens in Bujold) has spread all over the universe and built a number of civilisation, all with their own cultures. In many ways she takes an idea and runs with is, seeing how it would develop on different planets. For example, the ability to genetically alter humans lead to hermaphrodites with equal rights on hyper-civilized Beta Colony, but custom-made sex slaves on Jackson’s Whole where money is the only law. Most of the books features Miles Vorkosigan who is born on Barrayar, an extremely patriarchal world which only just recently stopped killing babies with perceived mutations. And Miles is born handicapped; abnormally short and with extremely fragile bones. He is also a hyperactive genius, making him both a charming and exasperating hero.
He is the main character in most books, in the first he is seventeen, in the last (so far) late 30’s. So there is an internal chronology even if Bujold makes sure you can read the books out of order. I think they are worth reading in chronological order, though. The first two Shard of Honor and Barrayar is about Miles’ mother Cordelia who is from Beta Colony and marries a man from Barrayar. It’s something of a cultural collision, not so much with Miles’ father Aral, but the whole planet… The first book is Bujold’s debut book and a bit choppy at times, but still good. Her writing only gets better after that.
Apart from her knack of making up different cultures, she can write characters like no one else. Just about every person you meet are interesting. Miles and his parents. Miles cousin that-idiot-Ivan and his mother Lady Alys. His clone-brother Mark and his foster brother Emperor Gregor- I could happily read a book with any of those as the protagonist, and they are only examples. The books also varies when it comes to genre and encompass space opera, murder mysteries and romances.
And I babble. Sorry. But yes, I think they are well worth reading!