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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Marti Dolata
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just read in Jo Walton's review of Falling Free that it was originally going to be the first volume of a trilogy. If this is true, would you care to comment on why that didn't happen, and what you had planned for the rest of the trilogy? This is not a plea for "more of the same", just a curiousity about what might have been. I've been a fan since the 80s and have been pretty happy about reading whatever write
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