Lois McMaster Bujold
Quadrenes absolutely believe the Bastard exists. It's His classification that is up for hot debate. Is He a god, or is He Something Else? To which the answer is "Yes", but some people can't cope with ambiguity. No coloring outside the lines if you're a Quadrene!
(People being people, they believe lots of other things, too, true and false, but that's outside the scope of this tiny typing box.)
(For even more bizarre real-world religious hairsplitting, look up the origin of the phrase "not one iota of difference" sometime... I wouldn't assert that it's the stupidest argument ever to change history, but it's certainly up there.)
Ta, L.
Quadrenes absolutely believe the Bastard exists. It's His classification that is up for hot debate. Is He a god, or is He Something Else? To which the answer is "Yes", but some people can't cope with ambiguity. No coloring outside the lines if you're a Quadrene!
(People being people, they believe lots of other things, too, true and false, but that's outside the scope of this tiny typing box.)
(For even more bizarre real-world religious hairsplitting, look up the origin of the phrase "not one iota of difference" sometime... I wouldn't assert that it's the stupidest argument ever to change history, but it's certainly up there.)
Ta, L.
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Dan Moren
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois! Longtime fan, thanks to my cousins, who introduced me to Cordelia & Miles some twenty years ago. As an SF author who's mainly gone the trad route and only dabbled in self-pub, I'm curious about the process of self-publishing the Penric novellas vis-a-vis the traditional publishing route. What's the process like for Penric? Do you hire editors, copyeditors, etc.? Do you prefer one way over the other? Thanks!
Nicholas Blas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This is less a question and more an observation. In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, when ImpSec is sinking, Illyan comments that the people running out of the building probably grew up in earthquake country. Having grown up in earthquake country, the people who would be running out of a shaking building are everyone else. EQ country people won't even notice quakes that make non-EQ country people run out.?
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