Aprilleigh
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just realized my son (who is almost 10) shares an unusual name with one of your characters, Ser Galen. As many times as I've reread those books I'm shocked it took me this long to make that connection. Other than the historical significance, I thought the only other place I had seen it before was the character Richard Galen from STTNG (there's a bit of a family in-joke about the latter). Where did you get the name?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Galen is a fairly common name, going back to Roman times, where it was attached to a famous physician and medical writer. For Komarrans, I wanted Italian-flavored names, to evoke Venice.
Megan Whalen Turner has a physician minor character named Galen somewhere in her YA fantasy series starting with The Thief, which your son might be ready for in a year or so. I expect she was also thinking of the noted Roman.
Ta, L.
Galen is a fairly common name, going back to Roman times, where it was attached to a famous physician and medical writer. For Komarrans, I wanted Italian-flavored names, to evoke Venice.
Megan Whalen Turner has a physician minor character named Galen somewhere in her YA fantasy series starting with The Thief, which your son might be ready for in a year or so. I expect she was also thinking of the noted Roman.
Ta, L.
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Catherine Nemeth
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Sorry about question below, character limit. Presumably deaths normally occur at a more or less steady rate, then there’s a war & sudden upsurge in violent/traumatic deaths, do the gods recognize that as war? Unless upswings in the death count in one part of the world get evened out worldwide? As the gods can’t comprehend boundaries, how aware are they that one of their favorites may be causing all that carnage?
Rothlauren C.
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I have read your Sharing Knife series more than 20 times, and it has helped me through some of the darkest times of my life. I served for 4 years in the USMC, then nursing school for 4 years. I've been an ER RN for 10 years. I was just accepted at university for my Psychiatric Nurse Practicioner degree. When I can finally build a hospital, may please name the library in your honor? Dag and Fawn have kept me alive. TY
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