Louis McMaster Bujold's World Of The Five Gods | Worlds of Speculative Fiction (lecture 97)

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We are continuing the Worlds of Speculative Fiction lecture/discussion series in an online monthly format. Each session will have a roughly 90-120-minute-long video (this one is longer, though!), which will be premiered (allowing chat interaction between viewers and myself). Then immediately following that, we will have a Zoom videoconferencing session, where we'll continue the discussion.

This session focuses on science fiction and fantasy author Louis McMaster Bujold's series, The World Of The Five Gods, specifically the first two books she authored in that series. We discuss the worldbuilding and key philosophical themes developed within the series. We also look at a bit of what Louis McMaster Bujold herself has to say about her work.

You can get the works referenced in this session here:
The Curse Of Chalion - https://amzn.to/4qc27QF
Paladin Of Souls - https://amzn.to/4s9v81u

The intro and outro music for this video is "Juno In The space Maze" by Loopop, made available in the public domain by YouTube Audio Library

Authors we have covered in the series so far are J.R..R. Tolkein, A.E. Van Vogt, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Leguin, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, George R.R. Martin, Philip Jose Farmer, Madeline L'Engle, Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, C.L. Moore, Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Arthur Clarke, Robert Howard, Gene Wolfe, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Vance, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson, August Derleth, Karl Edward Wagner, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, China Mieville, Walter Miller, Cordwainer Smith, Liu Cixin, R. Scott Bakker, Stanislaw Lem, Neal Stephenson's, Philip Pullman, Olaf Stapledon, Veronica Roth, J.G. Ballard, Dan Simmons, Andrzej Sapkowski, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Steven Erickson, James Kennedy, Jim Butcher, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Jeff Vandermere, Tad Williams, Susan Cooper, David Eddings, Ken Liu, and Stephen King.

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