‘Ancillary Sword’ picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.
My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I’m going to do exactly what I want, and I’m going to survive, or I’m not. I’m not going to pander. I’m not going to change things. I’m not going to do focus groups. I’ll live and die by the sword. I don’t care. Because I couldn’t live with myself.
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
