https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/tags/books/ Recent content in Books on Angus Thinks Hugo en @2026 Angus Hardie Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/posts/2006/10/09/new-bujold-book/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/posts/2006/10/09/new-bujold-book/ <p>The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold [<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sharing-Knife-Beguilement-1/dp/0061137588/" class="link-external" rel="noopener">Amazon</a> ] is coming out this week hopefully. (My order&rsquo;s already in with Amazon)</p> <p>The good news is that there are now some <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061137587/The_Sharing_Knife_Volume_One/excerpt.aspx" class="link-external" rel="noopener">sample chapters</a> up.</p> <p>Bujold of course is better known for the <a href="http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=lmbujold" class="link-external" rel="noopener">Vorkosigan</a> series of booksand the <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0380818604" class="link-external" rel="noopener">Chalion series.</a> </p> https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/posts/2006/06/29/sf-publisher-jim-baen-passed-away/ Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/posts/2006/06/29/sf-publisher-jim-baen-passed-away/ <p>I read today that Jim Baen of Baen books fame has passed away.</p> <p>I think I have more Baen SF books on my shelf than any other single publisher and to a great extent Baen Books the publisher was always strongly connected to Jim Baen the man. Baen have published some of my all time favourite books (including Bujold and Weber) and their approach to electronic publishing is by far the most rational, sensible and intelligent of any publisher.</p>