I’ve known for a few weeks, but they’ve now announced it. Yrs truly will receive the honor at the Nebulas in Chicago to be followed by an autographing open to the public, as I understand it.
I didn’t achieve this without the kindness and loyalty of my readers.
I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when I heard, since I thought you already were a Grandmaster.
Congratulations! And well deserved.
Congratulations! I’ve been reading your books since a math teacher lent me Pride of Chanur in 1983 or so. Well deserved!
AT LAST! Yes, your fans adore you and endlessly admire your work (hands you and Jane each dozens of roses). What I’ve always found fascinating is how many of those fans are accomplished and lauded authors in their own right.
Thank you all. Delighted. We are making the trip to the Nebulas. And I may have to look at my wardrobe…my sweatshirt collection hardly seems appropriate for the honor. I may have to get real clothes and look good and do you guys proud. 😉
Black leather? Hair in a ribboned braid? 🙂
that would be awesome
Ragi colors for the ribbon, or white for the Paidhi?
Satin with lace trim. House colors, whatever they’d be. Not leather, because not in the Guild.
How can she not be in the guild? She created the guild!
Good point, Paul.
Ah-ha! Now we know the identity of the Guildmaster!!!! OOOPS! someone just Filed Intent… 😉
On the fifteenth hand, a captain’s earring or two wouldn’t be inappropriate either.
A large pendant pearl? Red silk pants?
It occurs that there may be a fine line between getting gussied up for a special event and cosplaying…
I’d say there’s not really any line, for some of us, both of those are pretty foreign and involve roll playing. For one you’re dressing up and pretending to be an adult member of your own culture, for the other, you’re dressing up pretending to be a member of someone ELSE’S culture…
You do us proud already! Enjoy some fancy duds, but I want you to know that you really do us proud without them.
Amazingly well-deserved…makes my spouse and me contemplate going to Chicago. Congrats!
Very much deserved. I hope we will be able to come and see you at the ceremony. Trevin and I am just so happy for you.
Hey, if other people are planning on attending the banquet at the nebula’s let us know so we can request seating.
Sheesh, I take a couple of days off and don’t check in here, and suddenly there’s this??
Congratulations. Well deserved, obviously. And I’m actually right near the end of a re-read of Tracker, getting ready for the next one, which I’ve already pre-ordered. But this award reminds me there are all sorts of series I haven’t read in years, and it’s time to take a ride in the wayback machine.
A nehru type jacket in rust colored linen? I can get the linen if Jane can make the jacket. I could also give you the fabric name and number so you could get it at your local Joa… uh fabric store.
http://www.simplicity.com/misses-jackets/2341.html#q=jacket&start=1
has to be carefully fitted in the pattern stage, but should look good with just about anything from jeans to a short chiffon skirt.
How much time might be needed for Jane to produce the coat, and would it become one of those ‘too many things already on the plate’?
I found a pattern for a duster-like coat with a mandarin collar that I cranked out in 2 days from some deep red fabric.
Folkwear’s Tibetan Paneled Coat. Straight, sleeveless coat.
That’s a neat coat, Tommie. Hmm, if Herself’s curvilinear form would be better suited to another fit, though, surely there’s something that would look great for whatever occasion. Everyone deserves to look really stunning now and then.
I doubt even my newest suit fits right, these days, though I think I’ve lost a little weight. Trying to change some habits can be a real challenge. But that’s me.
Something with an Asian flair? Something very business-like? Hmm, but for such an occasion, it calls for a little evening finery.
I’m sure you’ll find something nice, CJ!
Simple, classic, stylish, something that will wow ’em.
It’s a funny thing. We dress up for formal occasions. We may like to be dressy to go out, or simply to be out in public. Or we dress down to be comfortable around home and family and friends, or for hard work. Yet there’s not quite a way to do both. I’m reminded of the case where Einstein was said to appear in some odd combination, pajamas and slippers but with pants or a coat or sweater, something like that. However, he was at home, I think, and back then, there were fewer options for casual, comfy, grubby, and he was older. If a great mind like that can’t dress for comfort when he’s home and older, or in his office / study, without being criticized, then there’s something wrong with people’s assumptions. I say that as someone who likes to look good when I go anywhere, even just ordinary day-to-day stuff. Sweatshirt chic? Heheheh. There ought to be some felicitous third option, you know?
The comments about the braid, the queue, put me in mind of a question in-story-universe: The braid is a near-universal custom among atevi. But surely there are exceptions. Philosophical or religious preferences, asceticism, or practicality if long hair would be a hindrance or hazard. Things like illness and hygiene, penance, or a sign of some sort of rebirth could be possible. — But what about new ideas, new fashions? I’m reminded of how the early 20th century and modernization, urban life, brought about big changes in women’s styles in hair and clothes, with sufffrage and the flappers and so on, as women began to be more independent. Or the early 19th century, when people abandoned those powdered wigs and changed clothing fashions to a new 19th century era. Or the 50’s and 60’s and 70’s, when ideas and new products made new choices popular. There was a heavy influx of “foreign” cultural ideas and fashions then too. We seem to have settled into a different mode now, less daring to change, yet more accepting of some differences and comfort in everyday things. (Yet men and boys are still expected to do the suit and tie thing for business and some schools and dressing up. We haven’t found an alternative to the tie for personal expression yet.)
So… Atevi culture is surely going through a lot of rapid changes with moderninzing and moving into a spacing era. — What things might change and what might stay fixtures of atevi culture?
Hmm…. Thinking a bit further outside the box…. Western culture had a fairly continuous, dominant position in terms of personal appearance, from the 18th century forward, into the exploration / enlightenment / colonial-imperialist era, and then that began to unravel in the 20th century as other world cultures modernized and could compete more. For example, most of Asia adopted a mix of Western modern clothes and updated traditional styles, and seem to be looking for ways to find a way forward for a more uniquely Asian take on things. That’s good. Other world cultures have also had something like that starting up, the challenge of blending modern Western things into their own old and new and modern cultures. … Western culture has taken in a very few things from others as fashions or trends, but hasn’t shifted the way others did to take in the Western modes.
So — What would that be like in atevi terms? The Ragi culture is the major, dominant one, but not the only one across the continent and islands. But Ragi culture would be facing all the changes of going from an early industrial mode to a pre- and post-spacing mode. Even the idea, for 200 years or more, that there are other species from other worlds…and that there are more than those strange humans.
So… what happens in cultural terms? It would be quite something if there were controversy and changes about braids or other such basics of Ragi and other atevi cultures. But some things either stay the same or are adapted a bit and still remain. (I’d tend to think the braid would have a strong cultural resonance, so even if some people try changing it or abandoning it, it might stay on, either the same or modified a little. I don’t know. It’s an important cultural distinction beyond easy categorization, so it would tend to stay on, I think.)
Hmm, no telling what might be ahead here on planet Earth as we move into the future.
More practically, if this summer is as hot as last summer, and that’s very likely from what I’m seeing so far — “less is more” is likely to be my own motto. — I like being dressy, but I also really like to be comfortable when it’s just me or around friends. I’ve become a lot more relaxed and practical about that, the last few years.
So… Who knows how atevi might adapt to new ideas and new times?
That is so pretty, but I fear I’m not quite ‘misses’ size. 😉
Regardless, you could still do the braid, even if it took a little clever but common fakery. Those in the know would know!
There are several along the same line in other sizes. That was just the first one I saw that I thought would suit your figure.
It’s about time! Talent should be recognized and appreciated.
Congratulations!
VERY well deserved! Congratulations!!!
Just want to add my well wishes for your well deserved honor. You truly are one of the very best and this was a long time coming. All the best.
On a very unrelated note, can someone point me to information about what happened to Patricia Briggs? From Mike’s latest posting, some type of accident/major surgery happened; she’s healing, but details are sparse. If it’s NOMB (none of my business), it’s okay to say that too. Ow!
Excellent news – and long delayed recognition! Have a great time.
Chondrite, according to an article in the Tri City Herald, Patricia was kicked in the face by one of her yearling fillies and suffered a badly broken jaw. She underwent a three-hour surgery to piece the jaw back together, but is expected to fully recover.
Ah, thank you. From Mike’s post, I had thought it sounded like a horse-related accident, but without specifics, Google was not my friend.
Yep, we saw her on occasion of her post-surgery checkup, and she looks as if nothing had ever happened. It was a broken jaw, but after being airlifted to Spokane, she insisted on going home before we could even get to the hospital…
Very, very well deserved! Wish I could be there to cheer you on.
Try this one, though I’m afraid you would have to look at the line drawing to see it properly. Plenty of room for black lace at the cuffs and a black lace jabot.
http://voguepatterns.mccall.com/v8991-products-48389.php?page_id=262