Kalen Delaney
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Reading Sharing Knife for the 4th or 5th time, and just finished the part where Dag sees inside the woman with appendicitis. I started thinking that was very similar to what Pen&Des can do. Then I realized that when Dag gives a 'ground reinforcement', it's almost exactly the same as Pen giving a dose of 'uphill magic'. Imagine my excitement! Have you ever thought that there are people who can actually do that?
Lois McMaster Bujold
In real life, no, sadly.
My two fictional worlds take their similarities from my own ad hoc grounding in biology and medicine, I think. Given human bodies, there are only so many things that can be done with them unless one is going to unmoor one's magic system entirely from any physical realism. Which is a perfectly fine fantasy narrative choice, just not the one I made for these two universes.
Ta, L.
In real life, no, sadly.
My two fictional worlds take their similarities from my own ad hoc grounding in biology and medicine, I think. Given human bodies, there are only so many things that can be done with them unless one is going to unmoor one's magic system entirely from any physical realism. Which is a perfectly fine fantasy narrative choice, just not the one I made for these two universes.
Ta, L.
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Dane
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Name check: did you see yourself referenced in this Forbes article? http://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2017/02/10/fifty-shades-of-green-how-fanfiction-went-from-dirty-little-secret-to-money-machine/#5321b09e2664 Love your work. Thanks for many hours of enjoyment!
Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Other than being raised with a strong moral code and sense of noblesse oblige, it seems that despite the Council of Counts and the Ministers, the only real check of the Emperor’s power is the threat of the Emperor becoming disliked enough to send enough popular support over to a relative to win a coup, hence Yuri’s Massacre and Barrayar’s stated bloody history. Or has there been a balancing act of power shifts?
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