PSA: Dragon in Exile

[rolanni]

Dragon in Exile is not -- that's NOT -- a "Theo book."  I'm pretty sure we said that, several times, but apparently some folks missed school that day.

Alliance of Equals is also not -- that's NOT -- a "Theo book."  Maybe if I start saying it now, people will catch on by the time the eArc comes around.

We now return you to your regularly-scheduled blog.

Well, no, actually, we don't.  Maybe tomorrow on the regularly-scheduled blog.  I'm kinda tired, tonight.

Comments

[ebartley.livejournal.com]

That seems a strange misunderstanding. I admit, I was hoping for some Theo in and among the other threads, but I knew it wasn't a Theo book. And even if I didn't, _Dragon In Exile_ doesn't sound like Theo: she was could go back to Delgado any time(*) and never wanted to live on Liad. Pondering ... yeah, in terms of who was featured, it was about what I expected from the title: the clan plus Kamele on Surebleak, with an emphasis on the delm. I was a little surprised by how much Kareen there was, but pleasantly so: we see so much more of her character on Surebleak.

(*) I don't think she'd find it congenial. But she's no longer clumsy so there's no evidence she's a safety hazard - she *is* a safety hazard, but I very much doubt Delgado recognizes "psychic nexus of bizarre coincidences" as a safety hazard. She got expelled from her tertiary learning institution, but she has the license to prove she acquired the knowledge she went there to acquire, and Eylot has not exactly behaved properly since. If she had an important enough academic-type question (say, urgent need for historical data), I don't see any reason she couldn't go back to Delgado to try to research it / find a researcher there. (With Korval plus *all these* Scouts on Surebleak, math is probably covered even without Aelliana, and current culture / languages certainly are.)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You'd've thought the description would have been a pretty big tip-off, but some folks are, um, focused. OTOH, the phrasing from my particular correspondent was that Dragon. . . "should have been" a Theo book, so, perhaps he was merely pointing out an error on our part for having written the wrong story.

I don't think that Delgado is in any way prepared to deal with a grown-up Theo. And I think she would find it even more stifling now. She might, possibly, go back for her mother (which reminds me. . .), but I'm not seeing any other pressing reason for Bechimo to raise Delgado.

[vythe.livejournal.com]

There are some cats left behind on Delgado, aren't there? I wonder if it's legal for adult cats to travel unaccompanied on spaceships in Korval universe.
:-)