[LMB] [SPAM?] Re: Malices

[Paula Lieberman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "PAT MATHEWS" <mathews55 at msn.com>


>>From: Rachel Ganz <rachel at compromise.fsnet.co.uk>
>>Reply-To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster
>>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>>To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster
>>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>>Subject: Re: [LMB] Malices
>>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:53:52 +0200 (CEST)
>
>>  From: "Mitch Miller" <mitchmiller at entertainmenttax.com>
>>  To: lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk
>>  Cc:
>>  Subject: [LMB]  Malices
>>
>>  I recall a story, IIRC entitled "The Silk and the Song" or something

I'm mixing up several books in here, at least one of them by Sydney van 
Scyoc

The particular books I'm thinking most strongly of was a set of  three books 
involved, and an explorer who had disappeared on the planet, with scarves 
and sort-of clones of him --Rauth images-- that kept showing up.

>>  similar, don't remember the author, about a group of Terrans who had
>>  landed on a planet and been enslaved by the natives.  The Terrans
>>  "encoded" a nursery rhyme with the location of their ship and the

I know that I've read that book, but can't remember much else about 
it--again, it either either one of the van Scyoc books or I'm mixing them up 
due to the silk....

>>techniques
>>  for relaunching it into a nursery rhyme.  Many generations later, even
>>  though they had lost all memory of being from a different world, they
>>still
>>  passed along the song.  When the slaves finally revolted, the song
>>enabled the
>>  hero and heroine to blast off for Earth to get help.  Similar to "Follow
>>the
>>  Drinking Gourd," a song used by the Underground Railroad to guide 
>> escaped
>>  slaves on their way north.
>>
>>----
>>
>>Is that "planet of exile"? For some reason I associate the plot with 
>>Ursula
>>Le Guin

No, Planet of Exile and Rocannon's World were published by Ace, and part of 
LeGuin's future universe... IIRC Planet of Exile involved a young woman who 
went off planet to retrieve something, with no clue that she wouldn't be 
able to return to her home due to time dilation--the planet would still be 
there, but not the people she'd known.

>>Rachel
>
>>Brevity, clarity and cups of tea
>>
>
> The title and Ursula LeGuin seem to me to be another tale, a novel in 
> which
> a (lightly coded as alien world) Chinese Communist government tries to do
> away with Taoism, road trip ensues, Taosim wins in its own quiet way. 
> Can't
> remember what she actually called the novel.

That might or might not be her Hugo-winning novel which wan't Left Hand of 
Darkness (I can't remember the title--oh yes I can, The Dispossessed...)