Technically speaking I live on a river! Well really there's no technically about it, it's just the way it is :P Montreal is an island, you see, in the middle of the St. Lawrence river; I never even thought of it as strange, until a friend from Alaska kept having trouble getting his head around it. But wide and lovely though the St. Lawrence is, it really isn't the same as an ocean or one of the Great Lakes, something big like that <3
Oooh, yes! I really do think you'd love the Vorkosigan Saga--it's got such beautiful loyalty stuff, in every book (and is the source canon for my very favourite falling-in-loyalty fic, Aral Vorkosigan's Dog). It's wonderful. And it's got an amazing sense of place--Barrayar really feels real, built up piece by piece and gradually revealed and fitting together perfectly. Like--the detail that back when they had horse cavalry, who had the rights to take away the manure from the stables was important, because of its use as fertilizer. That sort of thing, you know? Not infodumped, but dropped in--it's always worked in well, in part because the main character is someone who knows a lot of history and thinks of things easily in those terms, so it makes sense for his thoughts to tend that way and for us to learn about it. And it's got one of the tightest third-person narrations I've ever seen. And--mmm--Gen and Miles definitely have some significant differences, character-wise. But they're more similar to each other than either is to pretty much any other character I can think of.
*pauses, squints* Wow, that was a lot. Um. *coughs* Sorry? Suffice it to say that I think you would like the Vorkosigan Saga, and that if you ever do try it I'd love to hear what you think :)
Oh, good point! I kept thinking of KoA and then thinking--but then, it didn't really capture Attolia--but the court of Attolia, yes, absolutely.
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Oooh, yes! I really do think you'd love the Vorkosigan Saga--it's got such beautiful loyalty stuff, in every book (and is the source canon for my very favourite falling-in-loyalty fic, Aral Vorkosigan's Dog). It's wonderful. And it's got an amazing sense of place--Barrayar really feels real, built up piece by piece and gradually revealed and fitting together perfectly. Like--the detail that back when they had horse cavalry, who had the rights to take away the manure from the stables was important, because of its use as fertilizer. That sort of thing, you know? Not infodumped, but dropped in--it's always worked in well, in part because the main character is someone who knows a lot of history and thinks of things easily in those terms, so it makes sense for his thoughts to tend that way and for us to learn about it. And it's got one of the tightest third-person narrations I've ever seen. And--mmm--Gen and Miles definitely have some significant differences, character-wise. But they're more similar to each other than either is to pretty much any other character I can think of.
*pauses, squints* Wow, that was a lot. Um. *coughs* Sorry? Suffice it to say that I think you would like the Vorkosigan Saga, and that if you ever do try it I'd love to hear what you think :)
Oh, good point! I kept thinking of KoA and then thinking--but then, it didn't really capture Attolia--but the court of Attolia, yes, absolutely.