Clariana
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What fantasy and sci-fi authors have most inspired you? Both before you started writing and while writing...
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm pretty sure I've answered this one before, a couple of times, earlier in the Q&A column; scroll down. But to recap, pretty much everyone who was published in Analog Magazine in the 60s, and whatever I could find on my libraries' shelves during that decade. Worth particular mention are Cordwainer Smith, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Anne McCaffrey, Zenna Henderson, L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, Eric Frank Russell, Tolkien of course, early Zelazny, and Fritz Leiber.
When I started writing, I had the most help from Patricia C. Wrede and Lillian Stewart Carl. (By that point, reading nonfiction became more useful for inspiring stories.)
Ta, L.
When I started writing, I had the most help from Patricia C. Wrede and Lillian Stewart Carl. (By that point, reading nonfiction became more useful for inspiring stories.)
Ta, L.
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Nadav Prawer
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I've recently had the pleasure of re-reading Komarr, a book I first read when I was too young to understand it, and reread when I was too newly married to appreciate it. Thank you for producing this wonderful book- the SF is excellent, but the insight into human nature is even better. I don't live in the States, and finding copies of your works is extremely difficult. Any chance of a box set being released? POD?
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