Flowers of Vashnoi
May. 25th, 2018 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ndrosenIf you didn’t know already, Lois McMaster Bujold has a new novella out, “Flowers of Vashnoi,” and it is good (of course; I said it was by LMB). It takes place on Barrayar, and is told from Ekaterin’s point of view. Hasten to download it, if you have not done so already.
If you are already familiar with Bujold’s work, or with the Vorkosigan series, this isn’t the place to begin. Begin with Falling Free and Shards of Honor.
I can’t resist quoting a little from “Flowers of Vashnoi”:
“But if one embeds a lesson in a lie, and the children find out it’s a lie, they’re likely to throw out the lesson as well. I mean, logically. They couldn’t trust anything at that point.”
“Mm.” Ekaterin wondered if that explained something about adolescence.
If you are already familiar with Bujold’s work, or with the Vorkosigan series, this isn’t the place to begin. Begin with Falling Free and Shards of Honor.
I can’t resist quoting a little from “Flowers of Vashnoi”:
“But if one embeds a lesson in a lie, and the children find out it’s a lie, they’re likely to throw out the lesson as well. I mean, logically. They couldn’t trust anything at that point.”
“Mm.” Ekaterin wondered if that explained something about adolescence.
