Clio
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Bit of an odd question, but, what was the inspiration behind the name of the planet Escobar?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I pulled it out of the air, having seen it I-don't-remember where (this would have been in 1983), for something sounding vaguely Spanish-y not-Anglo-Saxon. Trying to indicate, despite the books being written in then-20th. C. English, that all the other major languages and peoples were still Out There.
I don't care to salt my prose with SF or fantasy neologisms to the point of making it indigestible, so the reader may take this thousand-years-from-now English, which ought to be profoundly altered by then, as being translated back for them by the narrative, just like the Penric tales where the people are all speaking Wealdean or Cedonian.
Ta, L.
I pulled it out of the air, having seen it I-don't-remember where (this would have been in 1983), for something sounding vaguely Spanish-y not-Anglo-Saxon. Trying to indicate, despite the books being written in then-20th. C. English, that all the other major languages and peoples were still Out There.
I don't care to salt my prose with SF or fantasy neologisms to the point of making it indigestible, so the reader may take this thousand-years-from-now English, which ought to be profoundly altered by then, as being translated back for them by the narrative, just like the Penric tales where the people are all speaking Wealdean or Cedonian.
Ta, L.
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Nancy
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Remember those old razor commercials - "I liked it so much, I bought the company?" I love the Vorkosigan books so much I named my son Miles. He's 11 now and eagerly awaiting the date when he's old enough to read them. Do I need a question? That's a question, right? Anyway, thank you, for writing these wonderful books. Cordelia has been a maternal role model for me.
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