Lois McMaster Bujold

Nov 20, 2024 | reactormag.com | Christina Orlando |N.K. Jemisin |Seanan McGuire |Lois McMaster Bujold

A few weeks ago, we asked dozens of authors about the speculative books they considered The Most Iconic SFF Books of the 21st Century. We loved their responses, from modern classics to translated works to graphic novels to hidden gems. But of course, readers had opinions! What about this book? How could that author not be in the top 10?

Jul 20, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Laurell K. Hamilton |Glen A. Cook |Lois McMaster Bujold |Dean Koontz

What makes fantasy and mystery such an appealing combination? The main thing that makes it such a great combination is the overlap in character types. That’s one of the things I did in The Dresden Files… I was following a very artificial process, and I was doing it to prove to my professor how wrong she was about writing – because I had a bachelor’s degree in English literature, in creative writing, whereas she had merely published forty novels.

Jul 18, 2024 | reactormag.com | James Davis Nicoll |Lois McMaster Bujold

There are a myriad of novels about young adventurers. No surprise, given their boundless energy, flexible lower backs, functional knees, and frequent orphan status. However, human beings are fully capable of living beyond the age of twenty-nine—sometimes they manage to cling to life even after reaching their thirties! More astonishingly, many ancients refuse to allow their manifest decrepitude stop them from pursuing activities providence clearly intended to be the exclusive province of the young.

Jul 7, 2023 | shepherd.com | Catherine Lundoff |Lois McMaster Bujold |Kij Johnson |Robert Bennett

A triumphant return to the world of City of Stairs. A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. Now, the city’s god is dead. The city itself lies in ruins. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings.