Pierre-Alexandre Sicart
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is there a way to search through questions? I can't find it, yet it's probable my question today has already been asked and answered. What is the necklace you're wearing in your profile pic? I've only just noticed that it's the same you were wearing at the 2012 National Book Festival.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yeah, the lack of a search function (and/or my failure to provide tags) is an ongoing problem. In part because some questions do come up repeatedly, and it would be handy to link old answers.
With regards to the necklace, it was the solution my Minneapolis art jeweler friend Elise Matthesen came up with when I brought her my box of assorted award nominee pins I'd accumulated, and wanted them all put together in a way I wouldn't lose. (Again. One Nebula nomination pin was lost when I left a jacket it was pinned to in a restaurant, never recovered, although SFWA kindly provided me with a replacement.) And also that I could conveniently display in such venues where it means something to folks, conventions and booksignings and PR photos and so on. Because pinning them all to a shirt had become impractical. (Mike Resnick, for a while, had a sort of cloth bandolier he could keep all his pins on, which lent him a bandit-like look, and might have given me the idea.) Elise calls it, justly, "wearable art".
I thought there was a little illustrated essay on it somewhere, but a cursory look does not turn up a link. In any case, I am indeed wearing it in the recent PR shot that goes with this blog, where I'm standing in front of the poster with all of Ron Miller's Vorkosigan ebook covers. (Of which people can buy copies, by the way. See https://society6.com/product/the-vork... )
Ta, L.
Yeah, the lack of a search function (and/or my failure to provide tags) is an ongoing problem. In part because some questions do come up repeatedly, and it would be handy to link old answers.
With regards to the necklace, it was the solution my Minneapolis art jeweler friend Elise Matthesen came up with when I brought her my box of assorted award nominee pins I'd accumulated, and wanted them all put together in a way I wouldn't lose. (Again. One Nebula nomination pin was lost when I left a jacket it was pinned to in a restaurant, never recovered, although SFWA kindly provided me with a replacement.) And also that I could conveniently display in such venues where it means something to folks, conventions and booksignings and PR photos and so on. Because pinning them all to a shirt had become impractical. (Mike Resnick, for a while, had a sort of cloth bandolier he could keep all his pins on, which lent him a bandit-like look, and might have given me the idea.) Elise calls it, justly, "wearable art".
I thought there was a little illustrated essay on it somewhere, but a cursory look does not turn up a link. In any case, I am indeed wearing it in the recent PR shot that goes with this blog, where I'm standing in front of the poster with all of Ron Miller's Vorkosigan ebook covers. (Of which people can buy copies, by the way. See https://society6.com/product/the-vork... )
Ta, L.
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Sergei Rogovtcev
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
You've said already that "Vor is is an aristocratic prefix"; and there's a plenty of places where it gets lost (like ImpMil academy: "Kosigan, Kostolic"). But there's one name that always stroke me odd: Vorobyev, which sounds like a normal Russian family name (from "Vorobey", meaning "Sparrow"). Is it supposed to be "unprefixed" to? Or is it actually a non-Vor-name?
Martha
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
On your book tour for Cryoburn (I think), you did a reading from something you were working on at the time. It involved Enrique and the edges of the radioactive zones near Vorkosigan Vashnoi. I haven't encountered this snippet, or anything even remotely like it, in anything you've published since. Did anything ever come of that story? Is it likely to? (Please say yes!)
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