Lois McMaster Bujold
All the classic monsters are potential models for malices; they are very protean. Malices do have an underlying program or set of compulsions that, though infected and inflected by what they eat, make them not creatures of free will; obligate carnivores, or rather life-vores, with no limiters, sort of like a cross between cancer and unregulated capitalism.
I don't know what FF#1 may be, but I recently watched the excellent anime Frieren: Beyond Journey's End -- the exceedingly creepy demons in that show have the same sort of Turing-machine style I imagined for my malices. They cannot be reasoned with (though they are smart enough to simulate it with clever lying); only destroyed.
Ta, L.
I don't know what FF#1 may be, but I recently watched the excellent anime Frieren: Beyond Journey's End -- the exceedingly creepy demons in that show have the same sort of Turing-machine style I imagined for my malices. They cannot be reasoned with (though they are smart enough to simulate it with clever lying); only destroyed.
Ta, L.
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SvetlanaP
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This is a bit of a silly question, but I couldn't help wondering: The Vor Game mentions that Bel's cabin on the Ariel had, among other things, "a small cage housing an exotic pet from Earth Thorne called a hamster." Did you have any idea of how Bel acquired this hamster, or what happened to it, when writing that detail? Or was it just a throwaway line of description to round out the setting & character? :)
Aprilleigh
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just realized my son (who is almost 10) shares an unusual name with one of your characters, Ser Galen. As many times as I've reread those books I'm shocked it took me this long to make that connection. Other than the historical significance, I thought the only other place I had seen it before was the character Richard Galen from STTNG (there's a bit of a family in-joke about the latter). Where did you get the name?
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