Talli Ruksas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
A lot of quotes from your books come to my mind fairly often (I didn't vote for him), but the one I find most profound is at the end of Brothers. Miles - "Straight-Up good guys and bad guys". Elli - "Great, which are we?". Was this just a fun line or did you see it as much deeper like I do? I watch a lot of violent fiction (bad CIA etc) and find it very discouraging for there to be so many real conflicts now
Lois McMaster Bujold
Beyond being a funny quip for that moment in the story, I suppose this one has its deeper roots in me having been a youth of the Vietnam War era, when America came down off its hero-high lingering from WWII, in a lot of unfun ways.
Ta, L.
Beyond being a funny quip for that moment in the story, I suppose this one has its deeper roots in me having been a youth of the Vietnam War era, when America came down off its hero-high lingering from WWII, in a lot of unfun ways.
Ta, L.
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Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Would you be willing to make an authorial statement of the status of the WGW outside of Lakewalker/Farmer lands? If the malice disaster was limited to that continent or was worldwide, and if so, are there other survivors? Were there any other cultures at the same level of ground/mage technology, and did they know what happened? Did they quarantine the area & are they keeping a close eye in case a malice escapes?
P. R. Bunke
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi there! I wish I could rant on about how much I love your work, but space is limited, so you'll have to trust me on that. I find myself enjoying your romances more than those in most fiction I read--definitely in part for the high-quality witty banter, but also because you write characters who really seem to complement each other. Is this based on your experience of romance? Some idealized version of love? Both?
Judy R.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Not a question, but a comment? In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, the engineer stated that the expressed water from the ImpSec sponge was shooting 25' straight out from the cliff before falling into the water. I see the book was published in 2012, as I checked just now. In 2014, a Red Cross briefing after the Oso Mudslide Disaster north of Seattle said that's what happened there, too -- a horizontal jet of water.
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