[LMB] (Chat) not a spoiler -- truly
Trix
trix at queerscience.net
Mon Jun 4 14:02:23 BST 2007
Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
> I got a giggle -- actually, a guffaw, but that's because it took me by
> surprise -- from this library catalog description of _Legacy_, which I
> ran across at semi-random on the 'net...
>
> "Bujold, Lois McMaster - The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy. The
> terrible struggle between the kingdoms of the Farmers and the lake
> Walkers continues as Dag and Fawn try to establish their new home and
> live in peace."
>
> Thus the gate-keepers try to keep the genre corralled...
>
> My quiet tussle with genre expectations continues: score for the
> weekend, Ch. 16 bagged, Ch. 17 commenced.
>
> Ta, L.
>
Oh. Dear. Are there going to be swords that light up when the One Twoo
Heroes touch them? And treks across random landscapes while eating stew
and locating plot tokens? And orcs? Going by that blurb, I'm going to be
disappointed if not.
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