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azurelunatic) wrote2010-11-06 06:26 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2010-11-06 06:26 pm
(old stuff) LMB in Mountain View, October 19 (with bits through the 22nd)
On the 19th, LMB was speaking in Mountain View. I have now discovered OpenTable: it lets you make reservations online. I therefore made reservations for our planned restaurant, at an ungodly hour of the sort where I did not want to talk on the phone, no not at all.
I picked Tif up from work, then we braved traffic. We'd optimistically planned dinner for before the event, but were 15 minutes behind planned due to traffic. Alas.emceeaich and ekaterin were already there, and dinner (when it arrived) was very tasty. A fellow fan and DW user (whose name I can't remember very well despite hearing it twice) came over to greet us. We headed for the bookstore as soon as we were done. There was a crowd. ekaterin had wisely got her copy of Cryoburn ahead of time -- by the time we arrived, the store was entirely out.
The Q&A session was fun; it was nice to see a little more about her writing process. Hers appears to be rather less structured than mine (and mine is not particularly less structured), as I will have some more solid events that I know are going to happen, and her characters wander through the world, discovering it as they go.
She does not plan to go into the adventures of Vorkosigan: The Next Generation. For one thing, Miles would be very very angry with her if she tried to mess with his children. (Miles is very aware of her presence, and aware that she jerks him around a lot by doing terrible things to him. I like a character who talks back.)
She read a chapter of an untitled, uncontracted, unfinished book. It involved Ivan on Komarr! (It is prior to Cryoburn, a side-story.) It involved Ivan and Byerly snarking at each other! Elf and I made giddy fangirl-flailings at each other.
There were more questions after; someone asked if the woman in the Ivan-snippet were to be Ivan's OTP. LMB said something about how she always gets questions about pairing off Ivan; couldn't people happy if he were left a happy bachelor?
Other reports: http://willowgreen.livejournal.com/174974.html
http://elf.dreamwidth.org/361038.html
http://ase.dreamwidth.org/542186.html
http://mmegaera.livejournal.com/281316.html
Tif and I suddenly had a thought: we could go to another store to get a book (with CD), and return to get it signed! So we located a store and headed out; she picked up the books; and then we zoomed back. Sadly, there was a train. This contributed to us not getting there in time -- Lois had left. We stopped for coffee on the way back, because it was just that kind of night.
Aside from the running out of books and lack of signing, the dinner and the talk were great fun.
20th: I don't remember much about the 20th except perhaps sleep.
21st: I went to the farmers' market with my aunt.
22nd: Dogsat and read Cryoburn and cried.
I picked Tif up from work, then we braved traffic. We'd optimistically planned dinner for before the event, but were 15 minutes behind planned due to traffic. Alas.
emceeaich and ekaterin were already there, and dinner (when it arrived) was very tasty. A fellow fan and DW user (whose name I can't remember very well despite hearing it twice) came over to greet us. We headed for the bookstore as soon as we were done. There was a crowd. ekaterin had wisely got her copy of Cryoburn ahead of time -- by the time we arrived, the store was entirely out. The Q&A session was fun; it was nice to see a little more about her writing process. Hers appears to be rather less structured than mine (and mine is not particularly less structured), as I will have some more solid events that I know are going to happen, and her characters wander through the world, discovering it as they go.
She does not plan to go into the adventures of Vorkosigan: The Next Generation. For one thing, Miles would be very very angry with her if she tried to mess with his children. (Miles is very aware of her presence, and aware that she jerks him around a lot by doing terrible things to him. I like a character who talks back.)
She read a chapter of an untitled, uncontracted, unfinished book. It involved Ivan on Komarr! (It is prior to Cryoburn, a side-story.) It involved Ivan and Byerly snarking at each other! Elf and I made giddy fangirl-flailings at each other.
There were more questions after; someone asked if the woman in the Ivan-snippet were to be Ivan's OTP. LMB said something about how she always gets questions about pairing off Ivan; couldn't people happy if he were left a happy bachelor?
Other reports: http://willowgreen.livejournal.com/174974.html
http://elf.dreamwidth.org/361038.html
http://ase.dreamwidth.org/542186.html
http://mmegaera.livejournal.com/281316.html
Tif and I suddenly had a thought: we could go to another store to get a book (with CD), and return to get it signed! So we located a store and headed out; she picked up the books; and then we zoomed back. Sadly, there was a train. This contributed to us not getting there in time -- Lois had left. We stopped for coffee on the way back, because it was just that kind of night.
Aside from the running out of books and lack of signing, the dinner and the talk were great fun.
20th: I don't remember much about the 20th except perhaps sleep.
21st: I went to the farmers' market with my aunt.
22nd: Dogsat and read Cryoburn and cried.
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I haven't yet read Cryoburn; I've been swamped with job stuff and a couple of projects. I don't want to do what I do with Harry Potter books, which is "slam it down in an afternoon so I don't get hit with spoilers." (Also, I suspect it'll be a rather long time before there's more new canon, so I'm going to stretch this one out.)
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He's Vor. Doesn't he have some sort of -duty- to continue his family line??