Kosigan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
On a re-listen of the Vorkosigan audiobooks recently, I noticed a 1-line reference to the tunnels under Vorbarr Sultana that were used to such great effect in Captain Vorpatril's Alliance - which was written about 20 years later. This got me to wondering: how much research of your own work is (was) involved in preparing for a new entry in a series that has been written over such a length of time?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I reread my own work so many times in the course of writing it and prepping it for publication, it's pretty well burned into my brain. I can pop back and check anything I'm in doubt about. (This can ambush me when I am happily wrong in some memory, and don't think to cross-check.)
Very often, something that was a throw-away line in an earlier work gets exploited and expanded in a later work, giving a flattering illusion of long-laid planning.
Ta, L.
Very often, something that was a throw-away line in an earlier work gets exploited and expanded in a later work, giving a flattering illusion of long-laid planning.
Ta, L.
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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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