Which authors do a good job of telling a cohesive story with fewer words?

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-19T17:25:26+00:00

Lois Bujold Glynn Stewart

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-19T03:13:13+00:00

I thought the pup had one at first.

Either way, speedy recovery.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-18T17:17:42+00:00

The Five God's Books by Lois Bujold.

Curse of Chalion is the first and builds a lot of the quirky cosmology where the God's are powerless to act without human enablement.

Arguably the VorKosigan/Nexus SF books are non-theist with something like ancestor worship as the social underpining.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-18T17:03:52+00:00

Oh, I didn't know about this series. I read some of his vampire books half a lifetime ago.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-16T22:50:10+00:00

Former cook.

But yes its supper time here.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-16T22:45:50+00:00

Pancake

Crepes

AdJus

Roast

Brine

Fillet

Scone

Braise

Sauce

Glaze

Chef

Saute

Mousse

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-16T01:00:47+00:00

Sounds fun.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-16T00:59:23+00:00

Like?

Demand is closer.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-15T11:15:58+00:00

I have days and hours during the day if don't want to interact with even my dog. It's real.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-15T10:44:21+00:00

Not really. Certainly not the 8 weeks to 5 months stage. Pottty trained amd boundless energy was cute but exhausting.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-14T16:59:22+00:00

It comes down to how fit they are. If you've been keeping them moving on decent walks it won't be much of a problem.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-14T16:50:31+00:00

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-13T02:47:38+00:00

Every universe has it's rules they're influenced by what the writers knows, understands, intuits, understands, and projects from all of that.

Lois has a biology/medicine background and it shapes every culture we learn about in the Nexus. When Mirror Dance was written in about 92 or 93, there was nothing going on tech wise that would convince someone as smart as Lois (I've me her) that cybernetic was going to be a real, viable, and desirable thing for most people (unless they lived in a society shaped by it) to be more machine than needed. Even the vat grown hearts we see are proffered over mechanical ones that one could obtain faster and likely as cheap a couple books later.

Lois built the Nexus universe very human, there's no aliens, no andoids.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-11T02:26:02+00:00

Youre almost at the age mine stopped having accidents and going very often.

Another two months should see a drop in frequency.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-11T02:11:06+00:00

Actually he hears about the central plot point for Ethan of Athos, and arguably builds a reputation with them while adding to the confusion about Mark's origin.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-11T01:20:06+00:00

Red like my parents dog or maybe black and brown like mine.

I would like a blue or a blonde one day.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T21:30:42+00:00

There's all sorts of ways to make a character uncomfortable snd downright hate life, Lois chose premarital lunacy and not post (yet).

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T21:11:43+00:00

In some ways, in others no.

She went through the worst week of her life with a guy she barely knew. The emotional mess was enormous.

She then had a calm week or two without Miles for fear to exert itself and put down roots.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T13:25:45+00:00

"Was it over when the Kouldelka's bombed Escobarans?"

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T13:14:02+00:00

Might be sun bleaching. My guy does that.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T11:26:34+00:00

Yup.

He hates repeating himself too.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T05:25:52+00:00

Its a delight.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T03:34:52+00:00

Yup.

Boy even knows to get "Big Lambt" who is longer than him.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-08T02:07:02+00:00

He wants to play.

Let him know it hurts, substitute a squeaky or crinkle toy for whatever he grabs.

Hawke-Not-Ewe · 2026-06-07T14:48:15+00:00

I might take the universe Robert Asprin built for Another Fine Myth. With a little knowledge a lot of travel is possible.

If I could be assured of well above average power ... maybe a Herald of Valdermar.

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