Nicholas Blas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This is less a question and more an observation. In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, when ImpSec is sinking, Illyan comments that the people running out of the building probably grew up in earthquake country. Having grown up in earthquake country, the people who would be running out of a shaking building are everyone else. EQ country people won't even notice quakes that make non-EQ country people run out.?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, but Vorbarr Sultana is not earthquake country; such events there would be unusual and alarming even to earthquake veterans. Nonstandard details such as the plumbing and other connections ripping out of the walls as the building went down would likely also be attention-grabbers.
As the building is windowless, its inhabitants wouldn't have been treated to the sight of the earth rising up past their windows, but it has plenty of other monitoring to give alarm. Until that, too, was buried or borked as events magisterially proceeded.
Ta, L.
As the building is windowless, its inhabitants wouldn't have been treated to the sight of the earth rising up past their windows, but it has plenty of other monitoring to give alarm. Until that, too, was buried or borked as events magisterially proceeded.
Ta, L.
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Arni Vidar Bjorgvinsson
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just wanted to let you know about something weird I've just noticed about your Vorkosigan books? On both Amazon and Audible, the series is called "Miles Vorsokigan". I got *really* confused for a minute, wondering how I could be misremembering Vorkosigan so poorly for 3+decades, until I saw that the books are all labeled correctly. It's just the "collection" or whatever it's called that's wrong. FYI. :)
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