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Banana Oil,
Ian Hamet takes issue with my suggestion that
Lois McMaster Bujold belongs on the list of 50 most
significant science fiction and fantasy novels of the last 50 years,
and thinks that C.J. Cherryh belongs there instead. I’ll
go one farther, and say that they should have included Cherryh’s masterwork
Cyteen (or any one of a number of others).

He questions Bujold because he’s not sure how influential she’s been; but
on the other hand he’s only read a couple of her short stories and
Ethan of Athos. That’s one of her two or three weakest
books. Ian, if you’ve only read “Ethan”, you’ve never read Bujold.
Go find a copy of The Warrior’s Apprentice, and have fun.