who only by moving can balance

Captain Vorpatril's bloody Alliance (Lois McMaster Bujold) having been nominated for a Hugo, now seems as good a time as any to remind you all why I hated it so much I (metaphorically) threw it across the room before I'd managed to get five pages in, and spent much of the next 48 hours hyperventilating and shaking with nausea.

Baen never got back to me about that e-mail, even to acknowledge that it had got to them; I have no intention of ever giving Bujold money again.