Daniel
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello Lois! First of all, thank you for your books. I have enjoyed them a lot. Now, my real question/thoughts. The Miles universe is pretty big. The lore is astonishing (and I LOVE a good lore)... But I think it is pretty much there, waiting for a good story to be written. For example, something about Piotr on the First Cetagandan War. Also, how would you feel about opening Miles universe to another author?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I have no plans at this time for more in the VK-verse.
I am not in favor of opening the series to another author (and Baen did ask, back in the day.) The universe may feel sharable to you (and to many fanficcers, bless 'em) but not to me; I build it backwards, starting with the characters and their story and building the world around them as they progress through it, a looping process with lots of flux. By which time there's not much left for anyone else to do.
(The advantage of free-range fanfic is that I don't have to ride herd on it, and they can have all the choices, not just my by-definition-canonical one, without impinging on my own work, time, or attention.)
Ta, L.
I am not in favor of opening the series to another author (and Baen did ask, back in the day.) The universe may feel sharable to you (and to many fanficcers, bless 'em) but not to me; I build it backwards, starting with the characters and their story and building the world around them as they progress through it, a looping process with lots of flux. By which time there's not much left for anyone else to do.
(The advantage of free-range fanfic is that I don't have to ride herd on it, and they can have all the choices, not just my by-definition-canonical one, without impinging on my own work, time, or attention.)
Ta, L.
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