Shelved By Genre: The Sprawl Trilogy Q+A
Added 2025-05-16 15:40:33 +0000 UTCWhat the heck is up with those mirrorshades? What happened back in the 1980s? These are some of the questions no one asked us in this action-packed, nearly-three-hour Q+A episode. Join us to talk through all kinds of weird stuff that came out of The Sprawl trilogy, and we give some hints about the things that are coming up. These are secret hints. You'll never figure it out.
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i listened to Big (by Big Tymers) and I do not like it, but I love it. This ep made me realize Cameron is the coolest guy ever, maybe except for his uncle and/or father based entirely on how they play music in their cars.
utamaru
2025-05-21 14:37:26 +0000 UTCI've read all the Vorkosigan books, so thought I'd chip in on the question of genre. It's difficult because it's a series that hops between a few genres and POV characters. There are definitely milSF ones, especially in Miles Vorkosigan (2nd pov character)'s early books. Go with them if you want the cunning boy who becomes a brilliant improvising fleet officer sort of story. The first ones (Aral & Cordelia, Miles' parents) are a bit romance, a bit milSF and a bit noble intrigue, which I'd say is closest to the overall series tone;- There's ship stuff, spy stuff, Regency-ish noble family drama-comedy stuff. The series gets closest to Gibson in Mirror Dance, Ceteganda & Cryoburn. In Mirror Dance we get an important POV character from Planet Capitalism and the politicking going on there, and in the last two Miles is transitioning to more of a detective-diplomat sort of role. But you get a lot from the soap opera continuity of following the family down the series. Anyway, I'm waffling. I love those books, but yes there's a lot of them!
Quinn
2025-05-18 13:24:39 +0000 UTC
