[LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

[LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update
Brad DeLong brad.delong at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 21:54:03 BST 2007

 

On 7/11/07, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
 > Back home at last...
 >
 > The line-edit of TSK#3 arrived this morning ...

May we ask what *kind* of novel? TSK#1 and TSK#2 together make up a
single two-volume Romance novel with a Fantasy background: Dag and
Fawn get together and establish an independent household, cleaving
only unto each other and breaking and greatly attenuating their
previous ties to the communities in which they were embedded. But
although we learn a great deal about the Malice threat in volumes 1 &
2, Dag learns little new about the threat and little happens to
change, transform, or diminish the threat during the books.

What kind of novel is TSK#3?


Brad DeLong


*** I'm not entirely sure what your personal classifications for novels 
are.  I can say the next book is a continuation from _Legacy_, it still 
has the same viewpoint characters, it goes on to examine new places and 
new characters and their situations, and it involves a river journey -- 
"flowing from mystery above to mystery below", as an old river man once 
put it, a line I ruthlessly stole.  People learn things; they aren't 
always the things they want to learn.  Does that help?

"Fantasy novel" is probably the best descriptor.  It's no longer a 
courtship story, so is not a romance in the modern genre sense.

"It's about these people, see..."

As a duology, TSK#3 and TSK#4 are not as much "one tale chopped in half" 
as their predecessors, but not quite "stand-alone books in a series" 
like the Miles books either; they lie about halfway between the two 
forms, I'd guess.  They continue closely connected through a rather 
inevitable break-point.

I'll be able to say more about the underlying thematic progression of 
the four volumes later, when I'm finished with #4 and know whether I've 
brought it off or not.  Reach, grasp, etc.

Ta, L.