[LMB] Polly Oliver on Barrayar?

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

ANDREW BARTON andrew.157barton at btinternet.com
Wed Feb 14 17:31:49 GMT 2007

 
In a post about something else ...
   
  Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:50:58 -0500
From: quietann <quietann at gmail.com>
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 >At the time of _Shards_ it wouldn't be as relevant, because Barrayar
was the invading force and they had no female soldiers along.  No female
soldiers at all, in fact. <
   
  Not officially.  If they had no disguised females among the men, it 
might be a historical first.
   
  If anyone wants to use that as a story idea, I claim no rights in it 
but you might want to make a nod to a recent Pratchett book.
   
  Andrew


***  Actually, while disguised female soldiers were likely common in the 
Time of Isolation, they'd have been eliminated on modern Barrayar by the 
same techno-social innovation that did the job in our world -- the 
induction physical.  That late 19th C. medical invention ended an era in 
more ways than one, I suspect.

    Ta, L.