Richard Derus
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
First, what I hope you'll receive as a compliment: For more than 30 years, ETHAN OF ATHOS has been my go-to comfort read. I've worn out seven copies. I still read it when I need to escape my rage and fear about the world we live in. Second, a question about the story: Was your single-sex world, with its loving, nurturing men all the way through to wild horndawgs, inspired or informed in any way by the Kinsey scale?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Glad you've enjoyed the book!
I think it was informed mainly by observation of the world around me, but in general I am a believer in gradients of human behavior, not tidy boxes. Not that tidy boxes aren't very popular, among those who wish the world to be simpler than it is...
The other observation, of course, is that children create, and certainly mold, parents, at all sorts of levels and in all sorts of feedback loops, from the most basic biological survival up through deep patterns of culture. And these, too, all exist on gradients.
Ta, L.
Glad you've enjoyed the book!
I think it was informed mainly by observation of the world around me, but in general I am a believer in gradients of human behavior, not tidy boxes. Not that tidy boxes aren't very popular, among those who wish the world to be simpler than it is...
The other observation, of course, is that children create, and certainly mold, parents, at all sorts of levels and in all sorts of feedback loops, from the most basic biological survival up through deep patterns of culture. And these, too, all exist on gradients.
Ta, L.
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Terngirl
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Thought you might be interested in the following journal special issue https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14678519 Ethics of Ectogenesis: The editors of Bioethics are pleased to announce a special issue on the Ethics of Ectogenesis (artificial wombs). Given that so many of your works deal with ethics, and you presaged / predicted artificial wombs, it might be right up your alley! Hope you enjoy?
Sarag
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
By any chance, do you know if they will be translating Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen to Croatian? Thank you all the same if you do not know. Sara Also, my grandmother, 91 year old voracious reader, has finally given in and allowed me to give her an SF book, short story-now she's hooked on Vorkosigans
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