Sarah
Sarah asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I have a vague memory a comment you made several years ago when someone asked about another Vorkosigan book that you had started writing about finding butter bugs in the radiation zone, but that was as far as the idea had gone. Is Flowers the end result of that idea? BTW, I'm about 70% of the way through and enjoying it immensely.

Lois McMaster Bujold
Yes, I presume. I'd written the opening of what you see back in late 2011, early 2012, but it stalled out and other projects took over. It was never intended to be novel length, though I'd thought it was going to be a longer novella than it finally proved. Rather like that description of the length of someone's legs: "long enough to reach the ground." In this case, long enough to reach the end.

Ta, L.

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