Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's Liaden Universe stands as a masterclass in world-building that combines the best elements of space opera, romance, and cultural complexity.
Big fan, but dropped off after the sexual politics started to feel too Current World. Understand that's a non-Western / neo-pagan thing, and also I don't want to spend more time with it.
I really liked “Agent of Change” and its series; I still have my old Ballantine editions of that book and maybe another one. But I got lost in the other books and kind of let them drop off my radar.
Enjoyed the tales for about two decades, after trying "Agent of Change" as a free or reduced price ebook. Good entry story, with a partial conclusion and quandary, but another 3-4 books or plot concepts branching out.
One other note: view Clan Korval as the wild-uncle clan of the Shogun. One of the books has a chapter header describing Liad: "There are fifty High Houses ... and then there is Korval." Good stories, characters, and societies enabled by acience fiction.
A great write up. I have been a fan for decades. Two things you could have added: it is up to over two dozen novels, as well as several collections of short stories, so there is an abundance of material; and, two, Steve Miller recently passed.
Yes, am a fan. Have read nearly all of the books.
Agent of Change is available on the Baen Free Library, if can be bothered to navigate it. Like the first free hit from a dealer.
Some homo in a couple of books. Eminently skippable, but not entirely out of place given the lack of religion in that universe.
Big fan, but dropped off after the sexual politics started to feel too Current World. Understand that's a non-Western / neo-pagan thing, and also I don't want to spend more time with it.
I really liked “Agent of Change” and its series; I still have my old Ballantine editions of that book and maybe another one. But I got lost in the other books and kind of let them drop off my radar.
Enjoyed the tales for about two decades, after trying "Agent of Change" as a free or reduced price ebook. Good entry story, with a partial conclusion and quandary, but another 3-4 books or plot concepts branching out.
One other note: view Clan Korval as the wild-uncle clan of the Shogun. One of the books has a chapter header describing Liad: "There are fifty High Houses ... and then there is Korval." Good stories, characters, and societies enabled by acience fiction.
A great write up. I have been a fan for decades. Two things you could have added: it is up to over two dozen novels, as well as several collections of short stories, so there is an abundance of material; and, two, Steve Miller recently passed.
Sorry to hear that.