Milana M (acouplereads)
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! This is such a neat concept / I'm just wondering if you could be any one of your own characters who would you pick and why?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I wouldn't want to be any of my characters. They have terrible things happen to them, not to mention to the people around them. I prefer a much more peaceful existence.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
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Stgermain
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
As you've gotten older, wiser, and perhaps a more capable writer, do you look back on things you wrote early in your career and wish you could change them? I once saw an interview with Spielberg about Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He talks about how he could never have had Richard Dreyfus' character go off on the space and leave his children behind, if he'd made the movie after he became a father. Thanks.
Stephen McKee
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
If you were writing the Vorkosigan books for the first time in 2022, do you think you'd still choose to refer to hermaphrodites like Bel Thorne as "it" or would you use "they/them" instead? If so, have you thought about maybe doing an updated edition of the books to reflect this? I think the use of "it" is a bit jarring to modern readers.
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