Paul Nolan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
As a sci-fi fan of books and films/tv, it seems a shame that more of your work hasn’t made its way to the big or small screen. (I see only one credit for you on the IMDb website.) Anything in development on these fronts?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope. Not a peep. Alas, it's not up to me. Media is a buyer's market, and the buyers are the producers, the folks with money, other people's or their own -- or both, given the high costs of production.
I suspect few of them are Bujold readers.
Adapting my material also has a hidden hazard in its interiority --a lot of what readers enjoy is actually taking place inside the characters' heads, where the camera cannot go, or in the stylistic voice (which are mostly one and the same, in my choice of tight viewpoint.) It's the great strength of prose fiction, so I play to it hard, but removing that whole layer for visual media would cost a lot of depth.
Ta, L.
Nope. Not a peep. Alas, it's not up to me. Media is a buyer's market, and the buyers are the producers, the folks with money, other people's or their own -- or both, given the high costs of production.
I suspect few of them are Bujold readers.
Adapting my material also has a hidden hazard in its interiority --a lot of what readers enjoy is actually taking place inside the characters' heads, where the camera cannot go, or in the stylistic voice (which are mostly one and the same, in my choice of tight viewpoint.) It's the great strength of prose fiction, so I play to it hard, but removing that whole layer for visual media would cost a lot of depth.
Ta, L.
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Alexa
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This isn't a question, but I haven't been able to get the system to send you a message any other way? My dad loved your books, but we especially enjoyed Curse of Chalion. Sadly he died in 2019 from mesothelioma. Which is when I discovered that the memorial ribbons for all lung cancers are white or cream. My mom and I are now planning a Bastard's Day ribbon for this year. Thank you! Alexa
Joseph
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Regarding Barrayar's Time Of Isolation, if I've got the timeline about right: 0-90 years, still had a dwindling tech base; 100-400, Bloody Centuries, regression to Agricultural Age; 400-450, Unification under the Emperor and canonization of the Vor caste; 450-600, Golden Age of the Vor; ~600 years, End of the ToI; ~625, Cetagandan Invasion; ~645, Aral born, ~650, Barrayar freed. Roughly on target?
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