Andrew Van Ness
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love your work as many do. I was wondering if you ever plan to definitively end the Vorkosigan Series? I want it to continue forever, again as many do, but I also realize that all good things come to an end. You are one of my favorite science-fiction authors because you infuse such realism into your world and characters. In the real world there aren't any definitive endings, and so I wonder, what is to come?
Lois McMaster Bujold
In the real world, indeed, there aren't any definitive endings. That's one of its many differences from fiction.
A present, I prefer to leave the series as it stands.
It does make me wonder, though -- how many kinds of things do different readers parse as an "ending"? (I mean, besides the writer dropping dead, which in this world of publisher work-for-hire extensions isn't even a sure bet.) Anyone want to say in the comments?
Observations of series dragged out beyond their natural ends can be instructive, as well. I touched on this a little somewhere in the recent manga and anime discussion on my blog.
Ta, L.
In the real world, indeed, there aren't any definitive endings. That's one of its many differences from fiction.
A present, I prefer to leave the series as it stands.
It does make me wonder, though -- how many kinds of things do different readers parse as an "ending"? (I mean, besides the writer dropping dead, which in this world of publisher work-for-hire extensions isn't even a sure bet.) Anyone want to say in the comments?
Observations of series dragged out beyond their natural ends can be instructive, as well. I touched on this a little somewhere in the recent manga and anime discussion on my blog.
Ta, L.
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Mickey
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Heading to Dublin for WorldCon 2019 tomorrow with questions all planned for your kaffeeklatsch, only to discover you won't be there! So glad to see there's an alternative that you're active on, so I can ask my questions here instead. Since I'm character-limited, I'll split them into multiples. First question: do you have a page where you publish your con schedule, or does one have to dig through your blog?
Kosigan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I was lucky enough to be sent to work in the US for a couple of months back in October 1996, just in time for Memory in hardback and Cetaganda in paperback. You've mentioned before how your UK publisher dropped you after Paladin Of Souls (idiots that they were, in my opinion). I apologise if this has been asked and answered before, but how did Cetaganda not get a UK publication?
Meryl Federman
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Did Galen have Barrayaran-style prejudices against uterine replicators and homosexuality? Mark implies that he was exposed to slurs against both from Galen himself, and it seemed like Mark didn't just know about Barrayar's prejudices in an academic way, but really felt them. Was Galen putting on an act, or was he truly biased? If he was biased, was such bias common on Komarr?
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