FRIDAY
7:30PM Opening Ceremonies, Maryland Ballroom  Duration: 1:00
Welcome our Guests of Honor and Special Guests, applaud the Compton Crook and Heinlein Awards, and honor those we’ve lost since we were last able to meet in person.

SATURDAY
8:45AM Friends of Liad Breakfast in the hotel dining room

11:30AM Interview, Maryland Ballroom Duration: 1:00
Sharon Lee, Tom Schaad

2:30PM Speculative Poetry Open Mic and Contest Winners Reading, Federal Hill Duration: 2:00
The winners of the Steve Miller BSFS Annual Poetry Contest will also read their winning poems. Sharon Lee will present the awards.  Come read your speculative poetry! Share what you’ve been working on.
Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD, Sharon Lee

7:00PM Making Readers Care About Your Characters, Gibson, Duration: 01:00
Plotting is awesome...

The 27th novel set in the star-spanning Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, third in the Padi yos’Galan internal arc, Diviner’s Bow riffs on classic Lee-and-Miller themes of what does it mean to be human, and the proposition that we’re all better when we help each other.

A world divided cannot stand. A people divided cannot thrive.

The Oracle has Seen the end of Civilization — and of the Haosa. While well-meaning people struggle to implement change that might, at least, mitigate a disaster, others are looking toward the profit they can make from the end of the world.

And the lives of two small children may be the threads that bind the future — or unravels it.

The Padi yos’Galan arc: Trader’s Leap, Ribbon Dance, Diviner’s Bow.

All three available from your favorite ven...

Sneak Preview of the anniversary edition of Lee and Miller’s I Dare, fifth installment in the Agent of Change arc.  This mass market edition comes will be coming out in December 2025.  Art by Sam Kennedy.

The Uncle has begun shipping Diviner’s Bow with its very handsome signed bookplate. So, if you want a signed hardcover, now isn’t too soon to order, and the Uncle is going to make it Extra Easy for you to get your book.

If you ordered a signed copy of Ribbon Dance from Uncle Hugo’s last year, and your payment information has not changed, all you have to do to get your copy of Diviner’s Bow into the mail is this:

Write to unclehugoATaolDOTcom. State your name, that you purchased Ribbon Dance last year, that your payment information has not changed, and how many copies of Diviner’s Bow you would like to receive.

The Uncle will do the rest.

It really doesn’t get any easier than this, so! What’re you waiting for?

Sharon Lee

For Immediate Release: February 25 2025
From Baltimore Science Fiction Society

Sharon Lee Wins 2025 Robert A. Heinlein Award

Sharon Lee, novelist, is the 2025 winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Award. The award is bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space. This award is in recognition of Ms. Lee’s body of work of over 38 novels and short stories. A majority of her space themed work is in the Liaden Universe®, written with her late husband Steve Miller, and features merchant families trading across the galaxy. The next Liaden Universe novel, Diviner’s Row, is forthcoming from Baen Books in April 2025.

The award will be formally presented during opening ceremonies on Friday, May 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM for Ba...

Liaden Universe® InfoDump #136

IN THIS ISSUE:
1 Diviner’s Bow Preorders: Instructions from the Uncle
2 Diviner’s Bow eARC Available
3 Sea Wrack and Changewind Audio
4 Sea Wrack and Changewind Ebook and Paper
5 New Short Story on Splinter Universe
6 Ribbon Dance Audio
7 Deadline for Next Liaden Novel
8 Convention and Other Appearances

DIVINER’S BOW PREORDERS: INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE UNCLE
The instructions appear here exactly as I received them. They also appeared in the lastest “How’s Business,” Uncle Hugo’s newsletter. If you require further guidance, please contact UncleHugoATaolDOTcom

THE INSTRUCTIONS:
“Back in December I sent the guy who manages the website information about 3 forthcoming signed hardcovers and asked him to get them onto the website by early January so that people could s...

“Core Values,” regarding the case of Geritsi slentAlin, who appears in Liaden Universe® novels, Trader’s Leap, Ribbon Dance, and Diviner’s Bow, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, is now on Splinter Universe, where those who have an interest may read it.

Those who have an interest may also donate, to the story, to the site, to the Coon Cat Food Bank, or to the author.  A donation is not required to read the story.

Core Values Introduction

Core Values

As has been the custom many years standing, herewith is a place where you — and you, and yes, you, too — may enjoy Unfettered Discussion of Diviner’s Bow while simultaneously not spoiling the story for those readers who have chosen to wait for the publication of the ebook, hardcover, or audiobook.

NOTE:  If you are a reader who has chosen to wait for the publication of the ebook, hardcover, or audiobook edition, and you do not want the story spoiled for you —

STOP HERE!

. . . and for the Love of Ghu, whatever you do — Do Not Read the Comments!

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The writer asks a question of the group mind:  In your opinion, did the characters “eat too much”?  Thank you for your forbearance.

Here’s the link