divinebluesky
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I respect that authors must follow their muse. Contradictorily, I really want more in the Vorkosigan universe, whether novels or shorter stories like the Penric work. One thought as I’m rereading the series for the I don’t know how many times is to wonder about how Bel is doing after his experience in Diplomatic Immunity and maybe we find out because one or more of Miles and Ekaterin’s kids visit quaddie space?
Lois McMaster Bujold
(The OP adds): "WRT my previous question, my deepest apologies if it’s offensive. It just reflected two things I’m curious about? I think your work is amazing. I read excessively and have found no one that equals you in character development." Pasted together here because GR separates posts randomly.
To answer the second part first, not offensive, just common. Among the most frequently asked fan questions are some variations of, "Can I get more of whatever character/situation intrigued me in X story?"
If people are still thinking about my stories after they finish reading, it's a good sign I've done my job well for them. Nonetheless, I can't give a promising answer, especially not to all of them. (There have to be hundreds by now!)
There are interesting time/shift issues going on underneath, as well. People who are just stumbling across my work for the first time recently (bless them) are getting stories that came out of my head over the span of decades, all piled up at once. I'm not the same writer (or person) I was ten, twenty, thirty, or now almost forty years ago (and a good thing too); I had different psychological concerns to explore at all those times, and so different ones now. (As some readers who were taken aback by Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen have cause to know, and even that is, in the initial conception and writing, almost a decade old.)
Which is a long way around to say (tl;dnr) "Nope." And also never certain, because who knows what ideas will suddenly interest me in a month, a year, or more. (Though not a week, as I just finished a novella.) But it seems more likely to be something new than something old.
Ta, L.
(Bel is doing fine, btw. That's one herm who knows how to land on... well, not its feet in this case, but something better.)
To answer the second part first, not offensive, just common. Among the most frequently asked fan questions are some variations of, "Can I get more of whatever character/situation intrigued me in X story?"
If people are still thinking about my stories after they finish reading, it's a good sign I've done my job well for them. Nonetheless, I can't give a promising answer, especially not to all of them. (There have to be hundreds by now!)
There are interesting time/shift issues going on underneath, as well. People who are just stumbling across my work for the first time recently (bless them) are getting stories that came out of my head over the span of decades, all piled up at once. I'm not the same writer (or person) I was ten, twenty, thirty, or now almost forty years ago (and a good thing too); I had different psychological concerns to explore at all those times, and so different ones now. (As some readers who were taken aback by Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen have cause to know, and even that is, in the initial conception and writing, almost a decade old.)
Which is a long way around to say (tl;dnr) "Nope." And also never certain, because who knows what ideas will suddenly interest me in a month, a year, or more. (Though not a week, as I just finished a novella.) But it seems more likely to be something new than something old.
Ta, L.
(Bel is doing fine, btw. That's one herm who knows how to land on... well, not its feet in this case, but something better.)
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Mary
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
The planet Komarr is being terraformed. I dream of a future when we terraform Mars. Recently, it's occurred to me the Moon might be a better choice. Mars is so cold, and the Moon is just the right distance from the Sun. Since we found ice in a moon crater, we've got a start on the essential ingredient. Maybe we could snag a comet for additional water. Do you think humans might do this in the future?
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