Andrew
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Apropos of the recent news about the artificial womb, after the uterine replicator, what SF technology would you most like to exist? A short answer is fine - hope your hand is healing well! [Also, you've answered so many questions, 395 of them to date, Goodreads needs to let us search through your Q&As to minimize duplicates!]
Lois McMaster Bujold
Probably, very cheap high-output non-polluting power generation. With that, all else becomes possible. Eventually.
Ta, L.
(Hand is healing more slowly than I'd hoped, grump.)
Ta, L.
(Hand is healing more slowly than I'd hoped, grump.)
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Richard
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
You have in the past mentioned that you often decide the theme of a book by asking yourself, what is the worst possible thing I can do to my main character and how will they react. I can see that in your writing but it also seems to me that an underlying theme of most of your books is that damaged people are drawn to damaged people. Or might it be rather that damage people might be more interesting to write?
Andy Lopez
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
A question about the Five Gods world: I would assume that each soul is taken up by one God and one God alone. Has there ever been a case of a soul being given special honors by more than one God? I can think of a man who once bore the miracles for two different Gods, and was the cause of a restoration of something significant to a third. I can picture those funerary rights as being far from the norm.
Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dying Ezar took comfort in atheism. In Wot5G someone like Ezar could choose sundering for fear of the unknown or judgement. How judgmental are the gods? The Bastard’s Hell is mentioned, is that where souls taken in the death miracle go? Anyone else? The Bastard takes those the other gods won’t, thieves, prostitutes, etc, but Des said there are those too vile like the psychopathic bandit chief. How many are too vile?
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