[LMB] LQ #19: Best Bujold Villian (Tues. April 8th)

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:34:32 -0400, "Richard Suitor" <rsuitor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to nominate Horseriver.  His flaw was not greed but
> a  luciferan arrogance, a refusal to submit.

And he's not really a villain. He's the protagonist of a tragedy, which we see at one remove through the hero's eyes. If there's a villain, it's the ancients who instigated the massacre.

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