Judy R.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Did you see this version? It's at www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant (Kept getting error msg so truncated the url.). Don't think they gave credit where it is darned well due, however.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I wouldn't go overboard with the credit if I were you. Aldous Huxley was playing with the trope, which has become standard genre furniture, as early as 1932. He was using it for quite different narrative purposes than I was, true. (Exploring some peculiarly British class issues, metaphorically, if I recall from my one reading of, good grief, half a century ago.)
Not to mention fantasy precursors as far back as the Mahabharata, though I'm not sure how to count those.
Ta, L.
Not to mention fantasy precursors as far back as the Mahabharata, though I'm not sure how to count those.
Ta, L.
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Robert Meyers
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you considered doing any books about the General or the Admiral from the Vor series? The stories about the General, Miles Grandfather, really are something that I would have loved to see. Or anything else in that series coming down the pipe? Love your stories. So thanks!
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?
Strangeattractor
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What helps with figuring out how to tell a type of story that isn't told often? For example, when you were working on the Sharing Knife books and realized you had set up demographic and long-term problems that your characters would tackle in books 3 and 4, what helped you come to grips with how to do it? How did you bridge the gap between wanting to write a story with an unusual shape and actually doing it?
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