New story

Sharon Lee has announced the publication of Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 24, containing a novella titled “Due Diligence”. The name of the protagonist rings a bell, so I think it’s someone we’ve met before, but I’m going to see if I can figure it out from context before I resort to checking my notes.

[ETA: Don’t read the comments on this post if you haven’t read the story and worry about spoilers.]

4 thoughts on “New story

  1. Othin

    Very nice background on Daav’s Father and how he benefitted from dealing with Chi. Also a warning of how an overfull outworld low house clan may tread its members. – What I can’t understand is why Telrune sees no advantage in a first-class-pilot who got his training without any help of his clan – there seems to be scheming and greed so deep it’s blinding. Beeing told one is worthless might have first seemed to help hide Fer Gun pen’Uldra from his grandfathers enemies – but then the lie took on a life of its own. Which speaks of Telrunes melant’i – a proper delm should have told Fer Gun everything concerning his Line at his comming of age. And yes, I believe he would have been able to earn far more money by not beeing unter the thumb of his cousins, even before he learned from Chi.

  2. Paul A. Post author

    You’re lucky I’d already started reading the story before I read your comment. If you’d succeeded in spoiling the surprise of who the story was about after I’d explicitly said I wanted to figure it out for myself, I would have been very cross.

    (And now, having wrenched my eyes away from your comment after the first sentence, I’m going to be avoiding this comment thread until I’ve finished reading the story, because I was enjoying having no idea where it was going, thank you so much.)

  3. Othin

    @Paul
    Frist I wish to apologize for my last comment.
    Not being a native speaker and tired, as well as excited after finishing Due Diligence, I fear, that I missed your wish to learn from the story itself.

    I also wish to complement you on your discipline. It’s totally astonishing to me. I would never be able to stop after one chapter to write something before continuing to read on – not on my first read. In fact this is so much a new concept for me, that it didn’t enter my mind, that I could be spoiling the surprise for you. I hope you can forgive me.

  4. Paul A. Post author

    You’re forgiven. I understand completely about being excited after finishing Due Diligence.

    And thank you for the compliment. (As a non-native speaker, I hope you will take it in the intended spirit if I point out that “compliment” and “complement” are two very different words, though even native speakers sometimes get them confused too.)

    One advantage of having started this blog as a re-read project is that I got a fair amount of practice stopping after each chapter of books I’d already read, which gave me a basis for stopping after each chapter of the books I was reading for the first time. And even then, if the book is really exciting, what will often end up happening is that I stop just long enough to write something down before continuing to the next chapter. (This is why I’m back in the comment threads when the blog is only halfway through the story — I have already finished reading, and written the rest of the posts that will be appearing over the next few days.)

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