Through my involvement in The Heinlein Society I have become a regular attendee at Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Society’s annual SF convention.\u00a0 BSFS and THS award the “Heinlein Award” and the 2025 winner was Sharon Lee.\u00a0 Before the con I had only read one of Sharon’s books and was vaguely aware of the Liaden Universe that her and her husband & cowriter created and populated.<\/p>\n
At the con, I picked up Fair\u00a0 Trade<\/em> to be able to have Sharon inscribe it.\u00a0 I read it this week and it’s an intriguing story with two main plot threads.\u00a0 I didn’t realize it was the third book of an arc, but I was able to pick up the gist of earlier pertinent action.<\/p>\n I enjoyed the similarity of the Loopers\/Traders\/Liaden to some of the customs in Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy<\/em>. What I did not enjoy was finishing the book with several dangling plot threads and finding out there was not a “next book in the arc” yet published.\u00a0 Steve Miller died in 2024, so it’s not really clear on what stories will be told in the Liaden Universe henceforth.<\/p>\n I’m glad I read this to get a better sense of Sharon & Steve’s writing, and a signed copy from Sharon is a nice memory of meeting her, but I would caution to read other parts of the Liaden Universe instead of this one for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Through my involvement in The Heinlein Society I have become a regular attendee at Balticon, the Baltimore Science Fiction Society’s annual SF convention.\u00a0 BSFS and THS award the “Heinlein Award” and the 2025 winner was Sharon Lee.\u00a0 Before the con I had only read one of Sharon’s books and was vaguely aware of the Liaden … Continue reading “Fair Trade<\/i> by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (2022)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30,40],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-book","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}