Now this is what I call actual news!
From Lois McMaster Bujold, on her own mailing list:
The two least wince-worthy candidates so far are Inheritance and Cold Breath with Web of Ice trailing.
And on the cutting room floor:
We can’t call it _NewEgypt_, its file name for lo these many months,
because people will think it’s something about the contemporary Middle
East. And we can’t call it _Miles Vorkosigan and the Cryochamber of
Secrets_, sorely tho’ I am tempted.Suggestions already rejected include:
- Voicing the Dead
- Voices of the Dead
- Pyramid Schemes (already used by Baen)
- Lost Souls
- Frozen Dreams
- Web of Ice
- Lady Murasaki’s Web
- Miles in Denial
- Miles on Ice
… The Big Chill probably doesn’t work either, sigh.
Some of the key concepts include, but are not limited to, Inheritance,
proxies, the dead versus the living, cryocombs, corpsicles, frozen and
waiting,
defrosting, “burn the dead,” rebellion against the dead overlords,
corporate greed, cryogenics and politics and economics, generation gap
and generation… war is too strong a term… generation competition.
The book’s mode is mystery-thriller-character/social study.
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