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[rolanni]

If you read this, please leave a comment.  Tell me, oh, how long you've been reading -- the blog and/or our work -- and what brings you here, and what the weather's like today.

Thanks!

Comments

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

Ohh.... ever since Baen republished your earlier work as eBooks - so nine years. And you're in my standard queue, you post, I read :)

The weather on the other hand... 40C today, and the pattern will be repeating all week, or getting worse. Welcome to the season of Bunaru here in Perth.

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

I've been reading your books since Agent of Change first came out, and reading your blog since it's been on LiveJournal.

I'm here on my regular LJ friends page run, and it's snowing outside.

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

I've been reading your blog since around the time the third fledgling chapter got posted. I've been reading your works a bit longer than that, but my time sense of the past sucks. The weather should be lovely today, low 70's and clear, but I will be in a windowless meeting room most of the day so may not have much chance to enjoy it.

[rjlona.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'm not sure how long I've been reading the blog, but I've been enjoying the Liaden novels for about a dozen years or so. I'm currently in the middle of my umpty-somethingth re-reading of I Dare.

I have a question for The Authors: Why is there only one non-humanoid alien species in all of the Liaden Universe? Don't get me wrong, I adore the Clutch Turtles, I'm just curious why they seem to be it for aliens. I guess Jelaza Kazone could count as an alien species, since it is demonstrably intelligent...

The weather in Detroit is grey, blustery, and somewhat warmer than it should be.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Why is there only one non-humanoid alien species in all of the Liaden Universe? Don't get me wrong, I adore the Clutch Turtles, I'm just curious why they seem to be it for aliens. I guess Jelaza Kazone could count as an alien species, since it is demonstrably intelligent...

Three non-human intelligent races: Turtles, Trees, AIs. Which is enough for the storylines we're juggling.

But, yanno; it's a big universe. Just because we haven't talked about more non-human aliens doesn't mean there aren't any more.

As an aside to your aside, I've been told by people who are Serious About Their SF that non-human aliens no longer "belong" in-genre, since apparently non-human aliens aren't possible in Real Life (I can't quite get my head around why we shouldn't be telling stories about whatevertheheck we want to tell stories about, just because they don't/can't/have been proven not to something-or-other in Real Life, but apparently some folks need their fiction to line up with Real Life.) So, if we want to play with the Big Kids, I guess we should excise the aliens and the "magic powers" from our work.

. . . or maybe not.

[starthorn.livejournal.com]

I check the blog every three or four days...Been reading your work since I found a copy of Agent of Change at a used bookstore in the mid nineties...
The weather here in Huntsville AL is going to be in the low 50's today, then a cold front comes in tomorrow and we get snow flurries and low thirties for a couple of days...
on the other hand, daffodils already have budheads so will be blooming soon.

[starrcat.livejournal.com]

Let's see - been reading your work since I think 1990. Whenever Conflict of Honors first came out. Followed you here whenever I heard about it. Wanted to know when new works came out and then how the cats were doing.

Hope that answers the questions. Oh, and it is sunny but cold here.

[lornastutz.livejournal.com]

Reading your works since late 1990's
Live Journal - not sure, but I found it

How long I've been reading

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

I've been reading since FLEDGLING - and you made me start there as a good entry point.
Oddly, when I later checked my book shelves, I had a copy of the collection. PARTNERS - perhaps that had an Anne McCaffrey intro?

I've been reading the Eagles blog for several years.. Mostly daily during my work break, and then on weekends from home to view the "cat pictures" which are blocked at work.

RE: How long I've been reading

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

Forgot to give a weather report: Today Wednesday 2/10/16 - East Hartford, CT
Snowing steadily right now. This will make the third morning in a row that snow has fallen during rush hour... But from right here, 72 degrees F.
I have a lovely picture window of "snow on trees with occasional truck passing"
Think Japanese painting - with a light pole cropped off the edge of the picture. [I'm to short to see autos passing.]

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

I found the Del Rey copies of Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem in Munro's Books in Victoria between 1990 and 1992. Then after years of lack, you started publishing again and I gleefully collected each book as it came out (and collected all the chapbooks in either dead tree or electronic format as well). I've followed your LJ and commented occasionally since about the time you began posting Fledgling.

Weather today on the Left Coast is high thin overcast. The weather guessers claim that we'll get showers this morning. We are unsurprised.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Somehow Eljay's brain-dead posting agent ate Conflict of Honors from the list I found in Victoria. muttermumblegrumbletechnologythesedaysisn'tapatchonthetechnologyweusedtohavegrumblegrumble

[nanette furman (from livejournal.com)]

I don't even know how long I have been reading your work- I think I started when Meisha Merlin repubbed your first books- maybe sfbc? I may have found your blog after Theo went up? Or earlier. Past time for me is just a great cloud of past.

Clear and cold here, very cold. Afternoon high of 25.... But sunny- and windy. sigh They keep predicting a warm spell, but, it always seems to be in the future. Need to melt the snow!

[eseme]

I discovered your work and blog around 2009 or 2010.

Weather is sunny and pleasant for February in Maine.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Been reading since A Conflict of Honors came out with that lovely Steven Hickman cover... we read our copies almost to pieces before The Great Drought ended.

It's sunny and 40F, but that will not last.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Since Agent of Change came out, however long ago that was! And I've been reading here since I found you on LJ, fairly early on.

Cloudy here. Supposed to be in the 50s today. I doubt it!

[wynnsfolly.livejournal.com]

I started reading your blog soon after I started with livejournal more than a decade ago. (When I was introduced to lj, I found blogs to read by reading the friends of friends pages. So most of my reading is from the SF community).
I recognized your name as an author I'd read and enjoyed, but when you had a clearout of your older novel stock, I jumped on it.
This let me get into Liad at one fell swoop.
Here in central Arkansas it is unseasonably warm & sunny. We've got an outdoor painting project for the day. Tommorrow's weather prediction includes snow flurries on the blooming daffodils.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

The first book I had was the 3 novel book club edition (which has long since fallen apart). I've been reading the blog for close to ten years I think.

[sibylle]

for a while, and Shan and Priscilla brought me :-) (wind and rain and 5*C)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Just found you. Jumped from the main page.
It was sunny today.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Somewhere between a decade and 15 years ago. Slightly closer to the decade I think. Picked up Carpe Diem using a voucher I had been given, possibly because I'd seen discussions on the Bujold mailing list.

Read the blog daily since on LJ feed.

Today was about 39˚C and tomorrow is predicted to be 40˚C (that's 104˚F for those still using that system). It may cool down on Friday slightly.

[spacecowboy528.livejournal.com]

I've been reading the books since I found the original trilogy in stores in the early 1980's, the blog since I found it a couple of years ago. The weather here is somewhat undecided and chilly.

How long reading?

[margaret thomson (from livejournal.com)]

I've been reading your books ever since the original paperback version of "Conflict of Honors"was published in 1988. The paperback version still sits, in relatively good condition, on my bookshelf.

I've been following you on the Internet ever since I purchased the omnibus "Partners in Necessity" through the SF Book Club in late 2000. That contained the link to your original website, "korval.com", in the back.

The weather today in Harrisburg, Pa.: Partly sunny, no precipitation expected, and high late in the day in the mid-40's. Low tonight in the mid-20's.

[cgbookcat1.livejournal.com]

I discovered your work about 5 years ago, and added your blog at the same time. I read for general updates, cat pictures, and for book recommendations. Weather in my area is in the upper forties and sunny.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

since the first book.

dunno how long I have you friended on LJ, but its been a bit.

[reedrover]

I've been reading your works since 1986 or '7. I have the original trilogy in original paperback. I can happily blame my childhood friend Kaelikat for finding about the Liaden Universe. I fell in love with Shan, and never changed my mind.
I've been reading your blog since... I don't know. I don't remember when I found out you were on LJ. I've been here since late 2003, because, at the time, many of the people with whom I was trying to build relationships were here.

It's inching up to 40 degrees F and cloudy here in western Virginia, which is quite reasonable for this time of year. Rain and then snow tomorrow.

[readinggeek451]

I've been reading your books since Plan B was published (although I actually started with Local Custom and then Conflict of Honors).

Sunny with temps in the 40s here now, but we're expecting more snow tonight through Wednesday.

[catlinye-maker.livejournal.com]

Let's see... reading the work since, hmm. 1990? The first book I read was Conflict of Honors - I can picture the battered paperback copy now, sitting on the bookshelves I built when I was in college. The shelves were made out of 1x6's, specifically to hold paperback books, and they were tall and narrow and unfinished. Reading your blog? Since I found it, before 2008 sometime. I like the Maine slice of life stuff, the updates on new fiction coming out, and the regular bulletins on the doings of your feline overlords.

The weather is sunny and warm, it will be in the high 70's today; we're in Desert Hot Springs in CA for February. All the benefits of Palm Springs (20 miles down the road) at a far more affordable price.