[LMB] Why LMB just doesn't count

[Beth Mitcham]

While wandering around panels at Norwescon this weekend I was told
repeatedly that Lois McMaster Bujold just doesn't count.  And by different
people each time!

At a panel discussing whether men could write women and women write
men, someone brought up Bujold.  Bad example; Bujold is such a good writer
that it isn't really fair to compare other authors to her.  Talking about
keeping books honest in a long running series I heard that Bujold doesn't
count because she's such a good author that of course she does everything
right.  And at least one other time I brought up Bujold in a point-of-view
discussion, and heard that "Bujold doesn't count" because if she wrote a
story from the point of view of a clipboard, everyone would understand it
and appreciate the life of a clipboard.

All this and she wasn't even GoH this year.

Beth Mitcham, back in the real world again