Nirkatze
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Bujold-sensei, I want to add my thanks to the pile--thank you so much for sharing your stories. They have given me many hours of quiet enjoyment and great conversation. I've been thinking about the "son/daughter of a great man syndrome" you have mentioned. Miles is constantly chasing his father's achievements--will Sasha and his siblings face the same future? How does M&E's parenting differ from C&A's? Thank you!
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles is so different from his dad, and Ekaterin from his mom, it won't be quite the same. Also, here we have the chance for six different reactions to their parenting, so there could be quite a range across the siblings; plus sibling interactions with each other that Miles lacked.
So there will be some great-man effects (or embarrassing-dad, at certain ages -- not an issue shared by Miles vs. Aral.)
They are also growing up in a different world, in the generational not the planetary sense.
And the rest I must leave to the ficcers, but to borrow another term from that community, my head-canon is that Alex goes for architecture, Helen becomes interested in law/a lawyer (and gets the duties of count's voice dumped upon her by big bro so he may continue to pursue his own passion, to both their satisfactions) Taurie goes for the military, Lizzie for science, and Selig and Simone are the wild cards.
(Also, "Bujold-sensei" tickles me greatly.)
Ta, L.
Miles is so different from his dad, and Ekaterin from his mom, it won't be quite the same. Also, here we have the chance for six different reactions to their parenting, so there could be quite a range across the siblings; plus sibling interactions with each other that Miles lacked.
So there will be some great-man effects (or embarrassing-dad, at certain ages -- not an issue shared by Miles vs. Aral.)
They are also growing up in a different world, in the generational not the planetary sense.
And the rest I must leave to the ficcers, but to borrow another term from that community, my head-canon is that Alex goes for architecture, Helen becomes interested in law/a lawyer (and gets the duties of count's voice dumped upon her by big bro so he may continue to pursue his own passion, to both their satisfactions) Taurie goes for the military, Lizzie for science, and Selig and Simone are the wild cards.
(Also, "Bujold-sensei" tickles me greatly.)
Ta, L.
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Dennis
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is the Count Selig Vorkosigan from the Time of Isolation who is mentioned a few times in the books also the father of Count Piotr? If not, do you have any ideas about Piotr's father? We know he was married to a Vorrutyer and that Piotr had inherited by age 22. Does that mean the Count Pierre's father died during the First Cetagandan War or before the end of the Time of Isolation?
Tom Telford
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I mostly read your books on Audible. I've read all of Vorkosigan and the three main Five Gods books and want to start Penric but its hard to justify using a years worth of credits for short stories. Do you have any plans to release the collections as audiobooks to help solve this sort of issue? Side question: When the Audible Plus program was first introduced why were only some seemly random books available through?
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