patty irigoyen asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Any plans for future expansion of the Sharing Knife world? I was loathe to leave it as it teetered on such social change. Not to mention my indelible curiosity about Nattie-Mari.

Lois McMaster Bujold
My usual answer, alas; nothing is planned, in progress, or promised in that direction at this time.

(This summer, I've decided, is for slacking. After that, who knows.)

Ta, L.

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Although I highly appreciate some of your Vorkosigan novels, on the whole I tend to prefer the World of the Five Gods—perhaps partly because it’s so European (apart from its theology, which I actually prefer to Christianity). Out of curiosity, I just checked, and in this world you never use the expression “freshen up”, which seems to appear without fail in the works of most American authors. Congratulations?

Diane Duncan asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hi! Thankyou for your novels. With the Vorkosigan universe, Do you ever privately worry about the trouble left behind in that universe from some of the endings of your books? (My husband and I’ve speculated 200 years later, when Eli Quinn’s genes have saturated Athos, curious and competently violent telepaths running roughshod over the rest of the universe. )

Lowell asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hi Lois - Flowers of Vashnoi is clearly in conversation with The Mountains of Mourning. Both Stories are heartbreaking, and while the experience Miles had strongly informed his path of maturation from adolescence to adulthood, how does story in Vanoshi affect Ekatarin in the long term?

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