Julia
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Thank you in advance if you're willing to answer this question. Besides publishing professionals (like agents/editors etc), out of the "famous" authors, artists, or SpecFi Con participants living or dead that you've meet over your career, who were you most surprised to learn was a a fan of yours? Also, who were you most pleased to learn was a fan?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm always pleased to learn that another writer likes my work. And surprised -- I know how tight their time and attention are to devote to other writers' works. ...Naming no names right now because it's first thing in the morning and I haven't had my tea yet, but there have been several, over the years. Well, Catherine Asaro comes to mind because she got me to write a novella for her romance-SF crossover anthology. Which is how you all came to have "Winterfair Gifts".
Ta, L.
I'm always pleased to learn that another writer likes my work. And surprised -- I know how tight their time and attention are to devote to other writers' works. ...Naming no names right now because it's first thing in the morning and I haven't had my tea yet, but there have been several, over the years. Well, Catherine Asaro comes to mind because she got me to write a novella for her romance-SF crossover anthology. Which is how you all came to have "Winterfair Gifts".
Ta, L.
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J C
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
A few questions: 1) did I mention how much I love the books? Because I love your books, the characterization, exploration of themes, your writing style. 2) how big is House Cordonah? I imagine an orbiting space station with ~40k people, including children. What's the corporate structure look like; do the denizens have voting shares? 3) are wormholes affected by gravity? What do they orbit?
Sergei Rogovtcev
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
You've said already that "Vor is is an aristocratic prefix"; and there's a plenty of places where it gets lost (like ImpMil academy: "Kosigan, Kostolic"). But there's one name that always stroke me odd: Vorobyev, which sounds like a normal Russian family name (from "Vorobey", meaning "Sparrow"). Is it supposed to be "unprefixed" to? Or is it actually a non-Vor-name?
Ashleigh Mattern
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois! In the Sharing Knife series, it's described that the Lakewalkers shield their ground by turning it sideways to the world (or a concept along those lines). To me, this sounds like an object in a higher dimension going out of view in a lower dimension, for example, how 3D objects might seem to disappear if moved when viewed from a 2D plane. Did you think of this when creating this magic system?
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