Halloween Reads
Rick Ellrod
Rick Ellrod asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

The Sharing Knife maps are remarkably similar to the Midwest of North America. This has made me wonder occasionally whether it's really the far future of our own world - if one assumes a technological culture was succeeded by one based on groundwork, which then fell. Or is this an alternate America, like Patricia Wrede's Frontier Magic?

Lois McMaster Bujold It's an entirely alternate world, not our far future. I just borrowed some prefab worldbuilding.

Hey, if Terry Pratchett can do it with the Chalk, I can do it with the Ohio River...

Ta, L.
flag

More Answered Questions

Laure Reminick
Laure Reminick asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hi Lois, Have you considered teaching? Your speeches teach much. I'd bet you'd be terrific at teaching what you know

Adger Williams
Adger Williams asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

At what point did you decide/realize/suspish/inkle that Assassins of Thasalon would be a novel and not the shorter form usual for Pen and Des and what prompted that decision/realization/suspicion/inkling?

Julia
Julia asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I see that Baen is releasing a collection this September called "Women of Futures Past: Classic Stories", edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Which story of yours is included?

All answers from Lois McMaster Bujold…
Lois McMaster Bujold
39,159 followers
To ask Lois McMaster Bujold a question, please sign up.

About Goodreads Q&A

Ask and answer questions about books!

You can pose questions to the Goodreads community with Reader Q&A, or ask your favorite author a question with Ask the Author.

See Featured Authors Answering Questions

Learn more