Lois McMaster Bujold
We saw one of your prospective scenarios in the backstory for The Curse of Chalion, with Fonsa the Fairly-Wise and the Golden General. But no one knows what extra things may have been going on underneath in these events visible to the god but no one else.
I would think just the known existence of such miracles would have a chilling effect on villainy in general, but alas. People. "No one is a villain in his own eyes" and all that.
Though one could mull on the fact that the gods want people to grow good/great souls, which is not actually the same thing as good/great lives. Death is not necessarily a tragedy in Their views.
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Ta, L.
We saw one of your prospective scenarios in the backstory for The Curse of Chalion, with Fonsa the Fairly-Wise and the Golden General. But no one knows what extra things may have been going on underneath in these events visible to the god but no one else.
I would think just the known existence of such miracles would have a chilling effect on villainy in general, but alas. People. "No one is a villain in his own eyes" and all that.
Though one could mull on the fact that the gods want people to grow good/great souls, which is not actually the same thing as good/great lives. Death is not necessarily a tragedy in Their views.
Commenters may have some fun with this below...
Ta, L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I run a book club on reddit where we read a different book of yours every month. This month we are reading your short stories collected in the anthologies Proto Zoa and Dreamweaver's Dilemma (DD). It's just been pointed out to me that there isn't an eBook version of the DD anthology, which means eBook readers have no way to read the story "The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment". Can you help in any way?
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