New Penric book out: The Adventure of the Demonic Ox!

[thewayne]

It released either today or just recently, and is typical in length with the recent Penric and Desdemona books. Usual platforms, including Kindle and Apple stores.

VERY good story! I'm about 60% or so through it, Russet finished it already but she had more time to read today than I did. I'm quite enjoying it, looking forward to the ending.

I think this is something like #14 in the series.

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[disneydream06]

WOW, 14th in the series and still going strong? :)
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Louise McMasters Bujold is "officially" retired as an author, and pops out one of these novellas every so often as the fancy strikes her. She did, IIRC, a trilogy of novels in the same world - The Curse of Chalion - which my wife informs me is about a hundred years or so later.

She's an excellent writer. Her sci fi series, the Vorgosigan saga, has a similar length and I think has won Hugo awards. They're really demonstrative of people stories who happen to be in space. I re-read the entire series last year. I highly recommend them, IMO there's not a clunker in the entire series.

[disneydream06]

That's my idea of retirement.
Do things you like when you feel like it. :)

[thewayne]

Immediately after my dad retired, he was crazy busy doing plumbing repairs for people from his church.  That did slow down, and he kept busy with his turning wood bowls on his lathe.

[silveradept]

I'm slowly working my way through them as audio in relation to trips and I have a feeling there will be plenty of chaos applied strategically. (Although it was deeply satisfying to have Pen and Des going all-out on a group that had annoyed them well past the breaking point.)

[thewayne]

A couple of interesting things happen in this one, which is really kind of stupid to say because there's always interesting things happening in these books. :-)  One of these days I'm going to assemble them into one or more collections, maybe sets of five would be good.

[arlie]

I'll wait until it appears in print.

I've just read Penric's Labors, which includes Masquerade in Lodi, The Orphans of Raspay, and The Physicians of Vilnoc. i.e. novellas 7, 8, and 9 of the series. It will probably be quite a while before #14 is available to me in a format I like.