Chris Neary
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois, I was curious as to wether you have ever been approached about writing any Star Wars novels? Would that be something you would be interested in? I often wondered how the process would work, would you be given a storyline and go with that, obviously sticking to certain histories within the canon. Apologies if you have been asked this many times which i suspect you have. Thank you for your time.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not Star Wars. I was approached once for Star Trek novels, long ago, but for me that starship had sailed. They should have asked me in 1968... :-)
I believe all the big franchises have some sort of story bibles these days. (In the early days, when all this was first being invented, things were more free-form.) But it's not something I'm interested in -- I want to write my own stories -- so I've never investigated further.
My friend Pat Wrede was approached through her agent and contracted to write the middle-school novelizations of the last 3 Star Wars movies, back when. But she was under legal obligation not to talk about it, at the time. But those were a lot more constrained than the side novels, as she was working from "live" scripts (some of them still wriggling.)
Ta, L.
I believe all the big franchises have some sort of story bibles these days. (In the early days, when all this was first being invented, things were more free-form.) But it's not something I'm interested in -- I want to write my own stories -- so I've never investigated further.
My friend Pat Wrede was approached through her agent and contracted to write the middle-school novelizations of the last 3 Star Wars movies, back when. But she was under legal obligation not to talk about it, at the time. But those were a lot more constrained than the side novels, as she was working from "live" scripts (some of them still wriggling.)
Ta, L.
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Daniel Coffin
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois, me and my brother were were wondering if you had any ideas for a new Vorkosigan book? We were thinking it'd be cool if you wrote a book based in the years of Aral's Regency... or perhaps a couples adventure featuring Miles, Ivan and their better halves.
Maya Chhabra
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi! I'm a fan of your books (both Five Gods and Vorkosigan) and heard you were on a panel about The Untamed! I was wondering if you have watched or are interested in the show Nirvana in Fire, a court intrigue drama that is considered one of the best Chinese TV shows ever? My wife and I keep thinking of some similarities to Vorkosigan due to a physically disabled hero who keeps an intrigue plot moving in creative ways.
Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In “The Assassins of Thesalon” Methani was unwillingly sundered and Penric thinks Tronio is likely to be as well since Tronio hasn’t accepted he did anything wrong. That implies if Tronio realizes & accepts he’s displeased the gods he might escape sundering? Or is he too “spoiled” to be accepted by a god in the short time before he’s executed? How does one become “unspoiled”, a lifetime of good works or another way?
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