[LMB] Trillium

Phil Boswell phil.boswell at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 07:46:48 BST 2008


On 14/04/2008, Jane Starr <jane at starchak.ca> wrote:
> Quoting Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com>:
>  > Ta, L.  (Wondering if the ST:TOS scripter knew what trillium actually
>  > was, or if he just naively picked it for the sound, like the fantasy
>  > writer who, perhaps inadvertently,  named a character after an airplane
>  > part.)
> Heh - reminds me of the Donna Andrews books about blacksmith Meg
>  Langslow. Meg's boyfriend is an actor in a tv series where almost all
>  the characters, locations, etc. are named out of a medical dictionary.
>  Porphiria is the name of the queen. Ambylopia is the world (or
>  country? not sure). There's a Duke of Urushiol.

I think I've seen those around: does she maybe have a sister, and they
both have strange abilities, or am I thinking of a completely
different female blacksmith? ;-)

Yet another set of books where I keep failing to find the *first*
book, and I do so hate dropping into the middle of something...
-- 
Phil


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