Bob Irwin
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
All this says to me is need more books! A Piotr history and a current Miles book... actually a half doxen more books, please. (?)
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm glad you have enjoyed my work!
The form of this question, which is a very popular one, gives me some odd reflections on the nature of novels existing in a sort of timeless now, leading to some readers picturing writers as also existing in a timeless now, when in fact the 30-something writer Bujold is a very different person than the 70-something (semi-retired) writer Bujold, and not only for the 40 more years of physical wear and tear. It also leads to different perceptions of the books between the older readership who has been following along for decades, and a (hoped-for!) new audience who is discovering them for the first time all at once, as if they'd all been written and published last week. Which ebooks do sort of invite.
Reader-response is endlessly fascinating in its complexity...
Ta, L.
I'm glad you have enjoyed my work!
The form of this question, which is a very popular one, gives me some odd reflections on the nature of novels existing in a sort of timeless now, leading to some readers picturing writers as also existing in a timeless now, when in fact the 30-something writer Bujold is a very different person than the 70-something (semi-retired) writer Bujold, and not only for the 40 more years of physical wear and tear. It also leads to different perceptions of the books between the older readership who has been following along for decades, and a (hoped-for!) new audience who is discovering them for the first time all at once, as if they'd all been written and published last week. Which ebooks do sort of invite.
Reader-response is endlessly fascinating in its complexity...
Ta, L.
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