[LMB] Why LMB just doesn't count

[onyxhawke at onyxhawke.com]

At the opposite end of the spectrum I had a trully entrancing conversation with a SMOF at Libertycon last year. The mental contortions one needed to make to follow, much less actually believe his arguements were entrancingly breathtaking in their scope. 

Being who I am I greatly enjoyed it. 






The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. H. L. Mencken    

-----Original Message-----
From: "Beth Mitcham" <mitcham.beth at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 07:12:06 
To:"Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster Bujold." <lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
Subject: [LMB] Why LMB just doesn't count

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
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