Mai-Anh
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Has it been especially thrilling recently as more and more of the futuristic concepts you've used are becoming closer and closer to reality? Or did you choose those concepts precisely because you felt they were most likely to happen/had the most practical application? (plot reasons aside, of course) Apropos of Cordelia's latest book coming out this week, VAT-GROWN MEAT!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y027yLT2QY0
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'd say gratifying rather than thrilling. (I do hope some of my more horrific hypothetical inventions do NOT come to pass!) I show what I do mainly for plot reasons; after that, practicality and likelihood do come into play.
Ta, L.
I'd say gratifying rather than thrilling. (I do hope some of my more horrific hypothetical inventions do NOT come to pass!) I show what I do mainly for plot reasons; after that, practicality and likelihood do come into play.
Ta, L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
So rereading Penric and the Fox, the first scene kinda of made me think about Memory and Miles ans Simon fishing scene... and it made me wonder about it. Fishing for these two set of characters seemed to be the perfect excuse to drink cold alcoholic beverage under the sun. I've never fished in my life so I have no clue, but I wondered where it comes from ? Personnal experience, inside joke, writer's licence?
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
TIL of actual emerald spectacles and thought immediately of Master Bosha's glass ones, but thought you might be amused, if you had not heard of them before? If you wish to see them, there's a listing at Sotheby's, and elsewhere online; "Mughal spectacles set with emerald lenses, in diamond-mounted frames, India, lenses circa 17th century." The diamonds were a later addition.
Debbie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
With respect to uterine replicators, would the mother-to-be still have the option of breast feeding their newly decanted baby? Just something that popped into my head, wondering how nursing would fit into the different classes of Barryar society. I assume it mean manipulating certain hormones, but would it be something even done?
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