Paksworld

Via my agent’s tweet,  here’s a site with info on Limits of Power and a look at the cover.     Hurray!

Meanwhile, I’m struggling with a couple of scenes from Book V that don’t want to be written, which undoubtedly means I’ve messed up somewhere else…but still, things have to keep happening.

And so you get a snippet.

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When we get to talking about something, I tend to think of comment-answers and my own comments as post-equivalents, and then you’re left without a new topic.  Sorry…you’re all so courteous and patient that I forget.  And when I forget, for that matter.

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This snippet is actually two snippets from a longer conversation that’s riddled with spoilers.  I picked out the bits that spoiler only one thing…and I don’t think it’s a “bad” spoiler.  However, if you don’t want to know anything at all, best not go beyond the cut.

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This snippet reveals the way that Mikeli of Tsaia thinks about the responsibilities of a royal marriage.  There are no plot spoilers.

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Sometimes, especially with stories told from several viewpoints across multiple volumes, the writer needs to have a scene that establishes the relationship between this POV in this book, and a different POV in a previous book.  Particularly, in the entire Paksworld work, the temporal situation.   We are so used to knowing today what happened an hour ago 2000 miles (or more) away, so used to having simultaneous different points of view, with television cameras and interviewers able to get the reaction of four widely scattered “foreigners”  (to whatever station the news is on) and four “native” (ditto) that it’s hard to keep in mind how long it could take for information to get from one place to another.   My entire life, privileged information arrived within 24 hours (telegraphs were expensive but used for super-important stuff)  and the technology wasn’t new then.

So this snippet, early in Limits of Power,  re-connects in a way the POV of someone else somewhere else with the POV here.  Very important things have happened to someone else, and this person didn’t even know–had not a clue what was going on.   It is a slight overlap, reflecting the temporal effect of distance.    The chapter it’s in has possible snippets holding spoilers, but I’m handing you this one instead.

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You’ve already met Poldin M’dierra, the nephew of Aesil M’dierra, commander of Golden Company.   Aesil is presently the only woman running a mercenary company in Paksworld, and she’s very good at it.   Poldin, her nephew, came to her with the usual starry-eyed romantic-idealistic notions about being a mercenary, despite having known Aesil all his life.    He’s learned a lot, since he came–he’s spent time with Fox Company, he’s now familiar with most parts of Valdaire, he rides better, he’s learning some fighting skills.  But he’s still a boy at the age where boys shoot up fast and sometimes do foolish things.

This snippet may or may not be a spoiler, depending on whether the 2000+ words I wrote today actually do fit in the final book, or just some of them, or (worst case) none of them.

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Setting:  Immediately after the end of Echoes of Betrayal and the Lady’s death, there’s chaos and suspicion.  Finally, as things began to settle down and reorganize–but still in the same place and with others around, Kieri asks his uncle, the Lady’s son Amrothlin, a crucial question.

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My US publisher offers 50 pages of a new book free every Friday, and today that’s Echoes of Betrayal.   Read fifty pages, plus some paragraphs I wrote about the process at http://sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2012/02/50-page-fridays-elizabeth-moon.html .

Episode 12 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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Episode 11 of Sergeant Vardan and her patrol during the Pargunese invasion.

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