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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Karen Kramer-Medema
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I recently read Edward James' book on you (in the Modern Masters of Sciense Fiction series). In it, you are quoted, saying: "I've often wondered if, somewhere in my writerly apprenticeship and unknown or forgotten by myself, I'd made some sort of deal with the Infernal Powers that my books would stay in print forever, but the covers would always be *dire*". Do you feel Pen&Des have somehow lifted this curse?
Radoslav Kirilchev
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Mrs Bujold, Everyone loves Miles, myself included. (I loved each and every one of the _Chalion_ books as well. The "Knife" series... were only very good, and nothing spectacular... but I guess that's just me. Sorry.) However, I am very curious if you'd ever thought about having Aral Vorkosigan as a main character? We're indeed aware of most of his story, but I've always found him more intriguing than Miles...
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