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Carpe Diem – Chapter 67

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Vandar
Winterfair

In which Zamir Meltz has something to say.

For someone who appears so little, and particularly as one whose appearances have consisted mainly of telling Hakan off when his enthusiasms run away with him, Hakan’s father has turned out quite well-rounded.

Agent sig’Alda remarks again on the luck that has preserved his life so far. It occurs to me that it may not be his luck — after all, Val Con needs him to stay alive too. And we’ve heard a lot about how Line yos’Phelium rides the Luck, but I don’t recall having heard anything similar said about Line sig’Alda.

Phase 5 – Schedule and Availability

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Phase 5 of the Liaden Universe Re-Read will begin next week, on Monday, December 8.

Phase 5 Schedule

  • 8/12 – Plan B ch.1-3
  • 11/12 – “Breath’s Duty”
  • 12/12 – Plan B ch.4-35
  • 12/1 – I Dare ch.1-12
  • 23/1 – “Daughter of Dragons”
  • 24/1 – I Dare ch.13-17
  • 29/1 – “Persistence”
  • 30/1 – I Dare ch.18-57
  • 10/3 – “Misfits”
  • 11/3 – Saltation ch.33-41
  • 20/3 – Saltation ch.42 & I Dare ch.58

Availability

The novels in Phase 5 are Plan B, I Dare and Saltation.

Plan B and I Dare are both currently in print as a Baen collected edition titled Korval’s Game, which is also available as an e-book. (Baen also offers the old separate e-book edition of Plan B and I Dare.)

Saltation is in print in a standalone edition, which is also available as an e-book.

The short stories in Phase 5 are “Daughter of Dragons”, “Persistence”, “Breath’s Duty”, and “Misfits”.

If you have some or all of the Adventures in the Liaden Universe® chapbooks put out by SRM Publisher, “Daughter of Dragons” is in #13 (Dragon Tide), “Persistence” is in #14 (Eidolon), “Breath’s Duty” is in #3 (Duty Bound), and “Misfits” is in #15 (Misfits).

The chapbooks are out of print now, but they’re all available in e-book form via Pinbeam Books, whose Adventures in the Liaden Universe® page is also a convenient reference for which story is where.

Baen offers two sets of Liaden Universe short story collections; if you don’t have any of the chapbooks already, these may be a more efficient option than obtaining individual issues.

The old set, available only as e-books, are Liaden Unibus I and Liaden Unibus II, which collect #1-6 (including “Breath’s Duty”) and #7-12 respectively.

(#13 is included in the Baen e-book The Tomorrow Log and Dragon Tide, so that’s another way “Daughter of Dragons” can be obtained.)

The new set, available in print and e-book form, are A Liaden Universe Constellation, Volume One and A Liaden Universe Constellation, Volume Two, which collect #1-8 (including “Breath’s Duty”) and #9-17 (including “Daughter of Dragons”, “Persistence”, and “Misfits”) respectively.

For searching out second-hand print editions, the authors’ web site recommends Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore, The Missing Volume, and White Unicorn Books.

Carpe Diem – Chapter 66

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Vandar
Winterfair

In which Tyl Von sig’Alda is a man with a plan.

sig’Alda shows a blind spot again: even after he carefully notes the fact that Val Con is heading for Miri’s last known location, it doesn’t occur to him that Miri herself might be the objective. Granted, he doesn’t know that Val Con knows Miri’s location, but then again he doesn’t know he doesn’t, and given how many of his scenarios involve pre-arranged plots against the Department you’d think a simple pre-arranged rendezvous wouldn’t be difficult to consider. But no; sig’Alda can’t imagine Val Con arranging to meet up with Miri, at least not for her own sake, because he can’t imagine wanting to see Miri again.

The Department really does spend a lot of time considering scenarios in which people are plotting against them, it seems. An occupational hazard of spending all one’s time plotting against people, perhaps. It shows up again when sig’Alda, having concluded that Val Con and Miri were deliberately signalling to someone on the radio, decides it was most likely a pre-arranged signal to a co-conspirator. (It’s interesting that he doesn’t consider the possibility that they might have been signalling to him, although to be fair I suppose that would seem less likely after Val Con’s marked lack of enthusiasm when he answered the signal.)