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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Jonathan S.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Over the course of the last not-quite two years, I've often found myself wondering what the Imperial Auditors would do when their appointing emperor passed and a Nero, a Caligula, a Yuri, or a Serg succeeded to the camp stool. Have you ever written about this and I've just overlooked it?
Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Maybe unfair to ask since your books don't fall into this category, but what makes an author abandon a series that has an unfinished through-line? I now have 4 different series I have followed where the author seems to have abandoned them and moved on to other things without wrapping up the larger story. (Example: 18 months between each of the first 14 books. 5 years since the last one, a semi-cliffhanger.)
Talli Ruksas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Why do you think Aral wasn't more of a father figure to Ivan? How would it have worked if Ivan had become count of the Vorkosigan district? Name changed? District name change? There's already a Count Vorpatril... Martya named after anyone? Which "milady" paid for Roic's vacation time in WG - Cordelia or Ekaterin? What size were the black and white tiles?
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