Karl Smithe
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
It would be so much fun to see Miles deal with aliens and what kind of aliens Ms. Bujold would create. The Moties in The Mote in Gods Eye were great. How about it?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not in Miles's universe -- it's the Bioengineering-R-Us future. There will be some very alien intelligent species in not many more centuries and millennia, but they will all be descended from Earth humans.
For an earlier model of the idea, see Cordwainer Smith's excellent Tales of the Instrumentality series.
We've already seen Miles dealing with the proto-versions of these -- quaddies, Betan herms, Guppy the somewhat one-off merman, arguably the Cetagandans. Heavy-worlders have been mentioned but not met. Miles's century is as it were a snapshot out of the early part of a much longer movie of radiating human evolution.
Ta, L.
Not in Miles's universe -- it's the Bioengineering-R-Us future. There will be some very alien intelligent species in not many more centuries and millennia, but they will all be descended from Earth humans.
For an earlier model of the idea, see Cordwainer Smith's excellent Tales of the Instrumentality series.
We've already seen Miles dealing with the proto-versions of these -- quaddies, Betan herms, Guppy the somewhat one-off merman, arguably the Cetagandans. Heavy-worlders have been mentioned but not met. Miles's century is as it were a snapshot out of the early part of a much longer movie of radiating human evolution.
Ta, L.
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Kristina
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
First, I love all your books. Thank you so much for writing them! Second, in the afterword to the Young Miles omnibus, you mention two Enya songs - "Cursum Perficio" and "Cu Chulainn" - that you associate with elements in "The Vor Game." Is there any other music that helped inspire your writing, or that you particularly associate with the Vorkosigan or World of the Five Gods books?
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