Lois McMaster Bujold
You need to read Shards of Honor more carefully. It's all in there, some by implication.
Note also that none of the following books are from Cordelia's viewpoint. This closely shapes and constrains what information leaks through. Miles doesn't actually know everything about everything, as much as he would like to; or else the stories don't touch on Cordelia at all, being off-planet or whatever. After a certain point, she would also have been reticent for Jole's sake, as was Aral.
Viewpoint matters, people. Hugely. (At least in tight-third or first person narratives. In real life, too.)
Ta, L.
You need to read Shards of Honor more carefully. It's all in there, some by implication.
Note also that none of the following books are from Cordelia's viewpoint. This closely shapes and constrains what information leaks through. Miles doesn't actually know everything about everything, as much as he would like to; or else the stories don't touch on Cordelia at all, being off-planet or whatever. After a certain point, she would also have been reticent for Jole's sake, as was Aral.
Viewpoint matters, people. Hugely. (At least in tight-third or first person narratives. In real life, too.)
Ta, L.
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David Abramowitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Thank you for your life's work. I have been especially taken by the world of the five gods. I just reread Masquerade in Lodi and remain slightly puzzled on P/D's move to Adria. The reasons for his leaving are clear enough -- loss of his two mothers; new archdivine with sorcerer; mismatch with the role of sorcerer-physician etc. But why Adria? D's interest in going there? Met the archdivine of Adria somewhere?
Natalia Panina
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello, Lois! First of all I want to thank you very much for the Vorkosigan Saga. I read it first more than 20 years ago, in Russian. I just swallowed it overnight and hunted down all published books written by you. Right now I am reading Miles's story for the fourth time and can't sleep if not finish it overnight ))) My question: do you ever feel scared or stumbled when starting a new story? How do you manage?
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