[personal profile] learnedax
so, how geeky do i have to be that a group of carolingians don't get my obscure halloween costume reference? if i could have figured out what a ghem lord should wear other than facepaint, maybe it would have helped, but my research indicates that unless one owns a black dress uniform, jeans and a t-shirt is pretty close to what they wear all the time. sigh.

Date: 2002-10-31 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] its-just-me.livejournal.com
what's a ghem lord?

Date: 2002-10-31 08:32 am (UTC)
tpau: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tpau
ghem lords are cetagandan's, form Louis McMaster Bujold books

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Date: 2002-10-31 08:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] its-just-me.livejournal.com
Umm.....ok.....is this supposed to be common knowledge?

Date: 2002-10-31 09:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jducoeur
Well, relatively -- Bujold has a tendency to win the Hugo award for best SF novel year after year, and has a huge following. On the other hand, I didn't get it either. (Haven't read the books yet myself. [livejournal.com profile] msmemory would probably have gotten it...)

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Date: 2002-10-31 09:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] its-just-me.livejournal.com
OK - years of slave lobor has left me out of the running for quite a few things including popular literature. Hopefully by 2006 I can safely re-enter life again.

Date: 2002-10-31 11:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tpau
blasphemy! you haven't read those? (ook, i shoudl shut up, i only read them a few months ago) :)

they are rather nice :) haven't read the latest one out yet though, as it is still only availible in hard cover. sigh. and here i am, desperatly wanting to knwo how Miles' married life is going :)

Date: 2002-11-01 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perbac.livejournal.com
Having just read it... fairly well. If slightly interrupted by, you know, Auditorial duties. I want to know how the kids are doing...

(heh, and ghem-lords even came up in it, which is why I knew the reference.. I don't think *anyone* in that universe wears jeans, though. :)

Date: 2002-10-31 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
Too bad your free time just diminished...
Although I'm guessing that you haven't read them because you're busy doing other things, I could lend you my copies (except for Brothers in Arms, which is annoyingly out of print). They're certainly some of the best post-Golden Age sci-fi I've read.

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Date: 2002-10-31 03:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jducoeur
Thanks, but we have all of them -- Caitlin's a big fan. (She actually buys them in hardcover.) Just don't have the time at the moment...

Date: 2002-10-31 07:29 pm (UTC)
tpau: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tpau
does that mean you have the last one (diplomatic immunity i think) in hardcover? can i borrow it pretty please? i read fast :)

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Date: 2002-10-31 08:20 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jducoeur
She says yeah, sure...

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