Will Bodine
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois McMaster Bujold, First of all, in my household, my father regarded you as the best that SciFi had to offer and it was stories of Miles retold to me as an asthmatic child in the ER, for the umpteenth time impatiently breathing away through a nebuliser cursing myself and my asthma for millionth time, that place you upon so high a pedestal. Was Dubauer based upon a real life person?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Pre-nerve-disruptor Dubauer wasn't based on anyone in particular; though he barely had stage time to develop before unfortunate plot events happened to him. His behavior post-damage during the trek was inspired and informed by my experiences chasing one-year-old toddlers. It's an age when they are just getting into that suicidal-mania stage, pre-verbal and post-mobile, lasting the next couple of years that gives so many parents heart attacks.
Which also gave Aral and Cordelia a chance to subconsciously scope each other out as prospective parents.
I'm glad my work served you!
Ta, L.
Pre-nerve-disruptor Dubauer wasn't based on anyone in particular; though he barely had stage time to develop before unfortunate plot events happened to him. His behavior post-damage during the trek was inspired and informed by my experiences chasing one-year-old toddlers. It's an age when they are just getting into that suicidal-mania stage, pre-verbal and post-mobile, lasting the next couple of years that gives so many parents heart attacks.
Which also gave Aral and Cordelia a chance to subconsciously scope each other out as prospective parents.
I'm glad my work served you!
Ta, L.
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Dave
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello Lois, I hope you are doing well. I am a big fan of the Vorkosigan series. I started Curse of Chalion, but did not finish it (this was many years ago). However, loved the 2 Penric novellas. So, which one of earlier books is most like Penric, so I can try again? Also, I think it is great idea to do novellas--it really is a short novel. Any more Penric novellas coming? Will you collect them in a real paper edition?
Carolyn B
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just saw this:AI writing "'partner" Sudowrite have an "Ursula K. Le Guin Bot." Did Le Guin or her estate sell rights to this company?" This company has an AI bot giving "author feedback"! This horrifies me. I wanted to warn you about these shenanigans, so that no one pulls this on you or anyone else.
Jonathan Palfrey
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In “The Hallowed Hunt”, Learned Hallana was annoyed by a rude man, and turned him into a pig temporarily (the spell wore off). It occurs to me suddenly that (a) her ability to do this is rather surprising, and (b) it’s not an ability displayed by any other sorcerers of this world, as far as I remember. Was it a bit of fun that we shouldn’t take seriously; or can any sorcerer do this kind of thing?
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