Robin Seina
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love Ivan character and even more loved his book (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance). Though I enjoyed the most the scene of Cockroach central sinking and reaction of several characters to it. Simon's, Gregor's and Miles' come to mind particularly... Where did idea come from? Also, have you heard this song?: https://brookeabbey.com/track/ivan-you-idiot I love it. Only shame it ends with Civil Campaign.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Besides reading such classic nonfiction books as Why Buildings Fall Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and a good deal of other nonfiction on engineering over the years, one of the oldest roots, oddly, was from a climactic scene from the old British comedy The Horse's Mouth, in which... is it spoilers for a film almost as old as I am? -- a bunch of justifiably distrait people unwittingly cross a rug that has been hastily thrown over the floor to conceal a large hole, and... slowly.. sink... out... of... sight...
I'll have to check out the Ivan song.
Ta, L.
Besides reading such classic nonfiction books as Why Buildings Fall Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and a good deal of other nonfiction on engineering over the years, one of the oldest roots, oddly, was from a climactic scene from the old British comedy The Horse's Mouth, in which... is it spoilers for a film almost as old as I am? -- a bunch of justifiably distrait people unwittingly cross a rug that has been hastily thrown over the floor to conceal a large hole, and... slowly.. sink... out... of... sight...
I'll have to check out the Ivan song.
Ta, L.
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Margaret
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just purchased & downloaded Penric's Fox for my Kindle. However, Amazon showed this book as "Penric's Fox: Penric and Desdemona Book 3 [Kindle Edition]". I have already read & very much enjoyed the first 3 Penric novellas so Amazon should have listed Penric's Fox as Book 4, right? It did have the "See inside" and I could clearly see it had the text of Penric's Fox. Thanks for the Penric/Desdemona series!!
Scratch
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I have less a question, more a request. I have loved your fantasy work for years, but only just devoured The Vorkosigan Saga in the recent months. I only ask, is there any way you could return to Athos? As a gay man I was thrilled to read about that planet, and even more thrilled to learn the population would gain superpowers. Could we see this?
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