The problem I always had with this book was - it seems like Bujold was trying to cram all the "look we can have homosexuals in this universe" onto one planet, in one book, so that we didn't need to have them on Barrayar. Which annoys me, because why not? Why couldn't Byerly just be gay (and end up with a man, don't get me started on how he marries a woman, wtf.)
It's an issue that does get addressed and fixed in Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, but when this book came out and I read it I thought - well, if Bujold is willing to write about homosexual people, why can't they exist on Barrayar, too?
Sometimes I feel like I'd love to see this entire series re-written and edited and updated from the standpoint of Bujold now, after growing as a writer and after seeing some of the (unintended?) consequences of early choices. Like the whole bit about women having very few career options (which again gets addressed and fixed in GJaRQ.)
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Date: 2016-09-19 02:20 am (UTC)It's an issue that does get addressed and fixed in Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, but when this book came out and I read it I thought - well, if Bujold is willing to write about homosexual people, why can't they exist on Barrayar, too?
Sometimes I feel like I'd love to see this entire series re-written and edited and updated from the standpoint of Bujold now, after growing as a writer and after seeing some of the (unintended?) consequences of early choices. Like the whole bit about women having very few career options (which again gets addressed and fixed in GJaRQ.)