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A question and some answers
Sep. 22nd, 2010 07:29 amI just lost about forty-five minutes in the mailing list archive trying to answer this question, so it's probably best to give up and ask if anyone knows: is there an established form of address in the Vorkosigan books for Counts and Countesses? That is, are they "Your Excellency" or "Your Grace" or some such? The only address-forms I can remember are Gregor being an Imperial Majesty (I think? Imperial Master, to Miles?) and then the various permutations of My Lord and My Lady, which, as Miles tells us, implies a specific relationship.
Any thoughts, anyone?
[After I typed that it occurred to me to look up the English forms of address for Earls and Countesses, which are Your Lordship and Your Ladyship, which sounds really familiar, but then I lost another half hour rereading a couple of chapters of Mirror Dance trying to find an example. HELP.]
And in exchange, answers! Specifically:
Full Publisher's Weekly Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold on Genreville, which includes this semi-answer to "What are you working on next?":
Something. No contract yet. It went well last midwinter, but plowed into the ground in the spring.
And this post to the Lois McMaster Bujold Mailing List, from Herself: It's so shiny! CryoBurn first printing arrives, which details the contents of the CD that comes with the first printing. If I'm reading this right, anyone who buys the first printing hardcover edition of CryoBurn will get a nice new legal and probably DRM-free ebook version of CryoBurn as well as nearly everything else in the Vorkosigan universe (in omnibus form), plus other essays and extras.
Any thoughts, anyone?
[After I typed that it occurred to me to look up the English forms of address for Earls and Countesses, which are Your Lordship and Your Ladyship, which sounds really familiar, but then I lost another half hour rereading a couple of chapters of Mirror Dance trying to find an example. HELP.]
And in exchange, answers! Specifically:
Full Publisher's Weekly Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold on Genreville, which includes this semi-answer to "What are you working on next?":
Something. No contract yet. It went well last midwinter, but plowed into the ground in the spring.
And this post to the Lois McMaster Bujold Mailing List, from Herself: It's so shiny! CryoBurn first printing arrives, which details the contents of the CD that comes with the first printing. If I'm reading this right, anyone who buys the first printing hardcover edition of CryoBurn will get a nice new legal and probably DRM-free ebook version of CryoBurn as well as nearly everything else in the Vorkosigan universe (in omnibus form), plus other essays and extras.