Andrew
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What notable items have you crossed off your bucket list, and what are the top items left on the list?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I can't say as I've thought much about bucket lists. One of my long-time ambitions was realized when Captain Vorpatril's Alliance made the real NYTimes bestseller list, what gets shorthanded as the Big List -- my later books had tapped the extended list enough times by then to make me think it possible and not a pipe dream.
Regrets, I think, are not bucket-list material. "I wish I'd done X differently in 1969," and the like. Also dangerous; if one could go back and change things, one might risk arriving at a less satisfactory outcome in the long run. Other things tend to be not under anyone's control, such as, "I wish my spine would stop having arthritic deterioration." Death would halt such declines, I suppose, but it's not a solution I favor. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
I'm pretty happy right where I am, really.
Ta, L.
I can't say as I've thought much about bucket lists. One of my long-time ambitions was realized when Captain Vorpatril's Alliance made the real NYTimes bestseller list, what gets shorthanded as the Big List -- my later books had tapped the extended list enough times by then to make me think it possible and not a pipe dream.
Regrets, I think, are not bucket-list material. "I wish I'd done X differently in 1969," and the like. Also dangerous; if one could go back and change things, one might risk arriving at a less satisfactory outcome in the long run. Other things tend to be not under anyone's control, such as, "I wish my spine would stop having arthritic deterioration." Death would halt such declines, I suppose, but it's not a solution I favor. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
I'm pretty happy right where I am, really.
Ta, L.
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No question. Just wanted to say that in this very dark year, finding and burning through the Vorkosigan saga was a real bright spot. I find myself recommending it to friends constantly, and they all fall in love as I did. Many many thanks for your work, and please know that it's bringing some light to dark places. {insert ?, since the autofill screen demands it!]
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I'm afraid to ask a question which must have been asked before, but here we go: For the Vorkosigan saga, did you decide for specific reasons to imagine a science-fi world without any aliens, or does the world came naturally to your mind already formed like that, with genetically altered humans but no aliens at all? Or is it the reflect of a personal conviction about science-fi credibility?
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