Lois McMaster Bujold
I use real places much the way working artists use reference photos when arranging their compositions; not because I am trying to draw a portrait, but as a quick way to get proportions and perspectives right for a coming overlay pursuing quite another purpose.
Readers who try to read the result as portraiture -- either as historical fiction with the serial numbers filed off, or as historical critique -- are using inappropriate viewing protocols for this style of composition. The ones who attempt to draw mistakenly exact one-to-one correspondences between such fiction and history, and then try to tell the writer they got it wrong, are... unstoppable, apparently.
Not accusing you of this, btw. But it does come up, if one makes the mistake of revealing how sausages are made.
Ta, L.
I use real places much the way working artists use reference photos when arranging their compositions; not because I am trying to draw a portrait, but as a quick way to get proportions and perspectives right for a coming overlay pursuing quite another purpose.
Readers who try to read the result as portraiture -- either as historical fiction with the serial numbers filed off, or as historical critique -- are using inappropriate viewing protocols for this style of composition. The ones who attempt to draw mistakenly exact one-to-one correspondences between such fiction and history, and then try to tell the writer they got it wrong, are... unstoppable, apparently.
Not accusing you of this, btw. But it does come up, if one makes the mistake of revealing how sausages are made.
Ta, L.
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Marti Dolata
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just read in Jo Walton's review of Falling Free that it was originally going to be the first volume of a trilogy. If this is true, would you care to comment on why that didn't happen, and what you had planned for the rest of the trilogy? This is not a plea for "more of the same", just a curiousity about what might have been. I've been a fan since the 80s and have been pretty happy about reading whatever write
Mumei
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I apologize if this has been asked before (keyword searches would be so nice…), but is there any chance of the older books in your catalogue getting published by Subterranean Press? They're really lovely editions and having the complete set of Sharing Knife or World of Five Gods or even Vorkosigan books like that would be wonderful.
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