Maureen Wynn
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I saw a question asking you for the meaning of Miles' line "I am the man who owns Vorkosigan Vashnoi" but I had to sign off before I could read your answer, and now I can't find that question in Goodreads - no frelling search function! I have my own ideas what that line means to Miles, but I would love to know what you meant by it? My apologies for repeating a question that has already been answered!
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yes, this GR Q&A function is in dire need of a search function. I don't think whoever set it up imagined answered questions over time running into the many hundreds. When they started out, the reader could not even order questions by newest-first, but was just presented with a random mix. Maybe if many, many people requested a Q&A search function of the GR site wranglers, one might be installed?
To answer your question, Miles was at that moment having his epiphany about his true identity through that metaphor of his Barrayaran stubborness refusing to give up his underlying identity as a Barrayaran and a Vorkosigan, despite how Naismith's glittering galactic possibilities tried to seduce him. Not just the echo of his ancestors' war-tenacity, but an echo of his future responsibilities to his District and redeeming the poisoned land.
Ta, L.
To answer your question, Miles was at that moment having his epiphany about his true identity through that metaphor of his Barrayaran stubborness refusing to give up his underlying identity as a Barrayaran and a Vorkosigan, despite how Naismith's glittering galactic possibilities tried to seduce him. Not just the echo of his ancestors' war-tenacity, but an echo of his future responsibilities to his District and redeeming the poisoned land.
Ta, L.
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Dione Basseri
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
My book club will be reading "Cordelia's Honor" in a few months! I'm very excited. It's a potluck book club, so is there anything themed to the books that you think would be good for me to serve? The best I've come up with so far is getting different fruit butters, for the butter bugs. What foods embody the series, for you?
John Kirk
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
As an author, how do you feel about content/trigger warnings? Some of your books have unpleasant things happening to characters (e.g. Elena Visconti). I really like those books, but I've recently been adding my own warnings while recommending them to friends. Would you be happy for an editor/publisher to add official warnings at the start of a book, or would that be treading on your toes?
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Des is keeping Penric young(ish) but I'm assuming that while she might be able to slow his aging and keep him healthy, she would not be able to extend him past the assumed human maximum of 125. In the end it still feels like it would be hard on him to outlive everyone important in his life except Des. How do you imagine she will handle his feelings of loss and possible depression? And how will she handle losing him?
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