Curious writer is curious

[rolanni]

One of the interesting things about writing in a large-ish universe for, oh, a quarter-century, is that you're pretty often meeting people who have read your work (or, even more interestingly, haven't read your work), and who have formed opinions about the plot-line, the characters, the theme, the authors' childhoods, and adult proclivities. .
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That being so, and because  people will say things either to me or within my hearing, I find myself with a question, which I will now throw out to you, the readers of the Liaden Universe®:

What is, in your opinion, the Big Story (also known as the Real Story) of the Liaden Universe® novels?

There are no right answers, or wrong answers.  Curious author is, as advertised above, curious.

Comments

[ellenru.livejournal.com]

Change is the first word that also sprang to mind even before I read the other comments. Old societies are undergoing radical shifts, things that were taken for granted are no longer in force and the resulting pushback is driving at least part of the conflict. I'm fascinated to see the fallout of that.

In more specific terms, I love how most of the characters are tested to their limit and the solution that seemed "obvious" at the beginning may be turned on its head by the end.