Florence R.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you ever considered writing a Five Worlds piece from the viewpoint of the gods?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Interesting idea, though I'm afraid the 5's minds are much too large to encompass. They're not like the Greek or Norse or even Chinese gods, humans writ large; they are genuinely ineffable, alien even though profoundly part of the world. The visions characters occasionally have of them are human-sized-and-seeming just because that's all the human mind can encompass, like a millimeter leak from a municipal water tower. (Or more accurately as a millimeter leak as experienced from inside a submarine.) Which is also why every vision is subtly different, each shaped by the shape of the mind receiving it. Of all the visions that have turned up in the stories so far, Cazaril's of the Daughter at the end of Chalion came the closest to seeing a god entire, and that nearly broke him, and certainly effected permanent changes in and upon him. A little bit joyously mad thereafter, and inclined to emitting William-Blake-level poetry at random times. (Saint Umegat would make a whole 'nother study.)
Ta, L
Interesting idea, though I'm afraid the 5's minds are much too large to encompass. They're not like the Greek or Norse or even Chinese gods, humans writ large; they are genuinely ineffable, alien even though profoundly part of the world. The visions characters occasionally have of them are human-sized-and-seeming just because that's all the human mind can encompass, like a millimeter leak from a municipal water tower. (Or more accurately as a millimeter leak as experienced from inside a submarine.) Which is also why every vision is subtly different, each shaped by the shape of the mind receiving it. Of all the visions that have turned up in the stories so far, Cazaril's of the Daughter at the end of Chalion came the closest to seeing a god entire, and that nearly broke him, and certainly effected permanent changes in and upon him. A little bit joyously mad thereafter, and inclined to emitting William-Blake-level poetry at random times. (Saint Umegat would make a whole 'nother study.)
Ta, L
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Peter Lawson
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Lois, as a reader/purchaser of your work and now thoroughly enjoying the Penric novellas vie eBook - which way of purchasing (iTunes, Amazon etc.) do you get the greatest piece of the pie? I'm figuring that the various methods are not created equal for every author. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia
Shane Castle
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
When you were flogging your first ms around, did anyone advise you to use a non-feminine pen name? (e.g., like C. J. Cherryh, or perhaps even James Tiptree.) Nowadays, of course, nobody would dare suggest it. Or maybe so; there's J. K. Rowling as a recent example.
Kalen Delaney
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I have discovered audiobooks and they have changed my life! I no longer dread long drives, I look forward to them. I own all your books in both print and e-book so I am using the library for the audio versions. The problem is the name pronunications. Some are not at all like I thought so it sounds like a different person. How do YOU pronounce dy Ferrej? Both parts...
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