![]() ![]() Her consciousness coming into sharper focus, she correctly identified the harpoon sensation as the musical chime of the vone. She had the blurry thought that if the waking had been a transition in one of her own works, she would edit it out in the very next take. ![]() The story takes place approximately six hundred years before the events in Cordelia's Honor.Īnias Ruey, the feelie-dream composer, floundered up out of sleep feeling like a sea creature being hauled out of deep water by a harpoon. ![]() Yes, the ill-fated Ensign Dubauer from Shards is a later descendant of Chalmys, both genetically and literarily. Having invented Beta Colony and the future history of the wormhole nexus as backstory for co-protagonist Chalmys DuBauer, I promptly recycled it as the place Cordelia Naismith was from when I plunged, a few weeks later in December of 1982, into the start of my first novel. "Dreamweaver's Dilemma", at about 16,300 words technically a novelette, also is the foreshadowing or first draft of what has come to be dubbed 'the Vorkosiverse' or 'the Vorkosigan saga', my long-running (and still running) science fiction series. ![]()
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