The Vorkosigan Companion Revisited
I realized, when fielding a question about my writing process on my GR Q&A column here, that I hadn't mentioned (or looked at) The Vorkosigan Companion [2008] in quite a while. Its assorted contents answer many frequently asked questions about my writing, its history, and its (still evolving) processes.
This book was pulled together by editor (and oldest friend) Lillian Carl and me in the mid-00s, about the time I was writing The Sharing Knife. So it doesn't cover books written later, or the huge changes to ebook publishing that came up soon after with the Kindle revolution. But much about my creative process remains the same, apart from me now abandoning the paper printout stage of editing and submitting my manuscripts. And, of course, the early biography remains unchanged.
To be found at assorted ebook vendors and some libraries, ferex,
https://www.amazon.com/Vorkosigan-Com...
Also not mentioned recently is (ebook only) Sidelines: Talks and Essays, [2013] for more assorted Bujold blether, to be found on all our Spectrum ebook vendors.
https://www.amazon.com/Sidelines-Essa...
Ta, L.
This book was pulled together by editor (and oldest friend) Lillian Carl and me in the mid-00s, about the time I was writing The Sharing Knife. So it doesn't cover books written later, or the huge changes to ebook publishing that came up soon after with the Kindle revolution. But much about my creative process remains the same, apart from me now abandoning the paper printout stage of editing and submitting my manuscripts. And, of course, the early biography remains unchanged.
To be found at assorted ebook vendors and some libraries, ferex,
https://www.amazon.com/Vorkosigan-Com...
Also not mentioned recently is (ebook only) Sidelines: Talks and Essays, [2013] for more assorted Bujold blether, to be found on all our Spectrum ebook vendors.
https://www.amazon.com/Sidelines-Essa...
Ta, L.
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Lois wrote: "But this captures it all (prior to 2008, anyway)"Time for an update, perhaps?
Kosigan wrote: "Lois wrote: "But this captures it all (prior to 2008, anyway)"Time for an update, perhaps?"
Neither Lillian's eyes nor mine would be up to it now.
I suppose a fair amount has happened professionally since then; three VK novels, some novellas, the Penric & Desdemona series now up to 12 titles, the two Hugo Awards for best series, and, certainly, the switch to indie-hybrid publishing by me. But much of that is covered in more recent interviews, essays, blog posts, and what-not, available online.
Ta, L.
There's an article from today's Technology Review ("The weird way Alabama’s embryo ruling takes on artificial wombs") that immediately made me think of the uterine replicator, which is coming into reality and out of Bujoldian SF. I can't share links to external sites here, but it hit today and the reporter is Antonio Regalad.LB, would love your piping hot take...
Brad wrote: "There's an article from today's Technology Review ("The weird way Alabama’s embryo ruling takes on artificial wombs") that immediately made me think of the uterine replicator, which is coming into ..."No piping hot takes from me, thanks. If the 40 years of SF writing and thinking I've already done on the subject of reproductive technologies and their consequences aren't enough, I doubt I can say or do more.
Journalists tend to want snappy sound bites, not long nuanced studies from many angles. Happily, novels have more elbow room.
Ta, L.
Lois wrote: "Brad wrote: "There's an article from today's Technology Review ("The weird way Alabama’s embryo ruling takes on artificial wombs") that immediately made me think of the uterine replicator, which is..."... Although if you want a summation of my views,
"It doesn't matter how you get here, only what you do after you arrive," is likely as succinct as any.
:-), L.
Just listened to the interviews on the Baen publisherpodcast called Baen Free Radio Hour and a lot of that information is updated after Companion. There’s a number of interviews over the years of the broadcast. The first was September 6 2013.
Ta, L.