Diane Duncan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi! Thankyou for your novels. With the Vorkosigan universe, Do you ever privately worry about the trouble left behind in that universe from some of the endings of your books? (My husband and I’ve speculated 200 years later, when Eli Quinn’s genes have saturated Athos, curious and competently violent telepaths running roughshod over the rest of the universe. )
Lois McMaster Bujold
I wouldn't say worry, exactly... mildly speculate, perhaps.
The trouble with real-world prognostication it that it tends to straight-line thinking, "if this goes on", when in fact events are a giant snarl of many factors all of them constantly changing, interacting and mutating, with new and unanticipated ones jumping in from the side out of seeming-nowhere. Realistic fictional speculation should share a touch of this, I think.
Ta, L.
The trouble with real-world prognostication it that it tends to straight-line thinking, "if this goes on", when in fact events are a giant snarl of many factors all of them constantly changing, interacting and mutating, with new and unanticipated ones jumping in from the side out of seeming-nowhere. Realistic fictional speculation should share a touch of this, I think.
Ta, L.
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spuriousstarlight
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello Lois! A while back I read somewhere that when you were writing A Civil Campaign you originally had a draft where Ivan and By had to hide a body, which you scrapped because it didn’t fit the tone of a comedy of manners. Is there any chance you could tell us what the gist of that scrapped storyline was? (Whose body was it?) I’m dying to know! :-) Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful stories with us!
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