Patrick asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I remember in the preface for one of your books you mentioned there was a Miles Vorkosigan movie planned, but that it thankfully never came to fruition because of the script. Do you still feel that way about a movie adaptation? Or, if you could pick a director for an adaptation, who would you choose?

Lois McMaster Bujold I don't know enough about directors to choose one, and, let's be clear, it is the producer, the one with the money, who does the choosing. S/he picks the directors and it flows down from there.

I am much less hot for a media adaptation that I was when I was younger and poorer, only partly because the money would no longer make any great difference in my life. When it is so hard to even get a cover that accurately represents my story, a single still image rendered by one person, getting an enormous committee with multiple other motivations in play to do so seems exponentially less likely.

Whatever came out the far end of this movie-making machine might (or might not) be a good advertisement for my books, but it would no longer be my story.

Ta, L.

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