Abi
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
How did Barryar not have a population crisis after the time of isolation with scads more women escaping to freedom in other places? It seems like you wouldn't have to be a mercenary to get away, there'd be a thriving human trafficking operation going on like in the former Soviet block countries where women would rather be prostitutes or mail order brides to men in less heinous countries than to stay where they are.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't, really, have a 30-volume set of the Encyclopedia Barrayarica (with commentaries) in my garage, so readers are free to speculate about questions like this as best suits their needs. (They will anyway, I have discovered.)
Ta, L.
I don't, really, have a 30-volume set of the Encyclopedia Barrayarica (with commentaries) in my garage, so readers are free to speculate about questions like this as best suits their needs. (They will anyway, I have discovered.)
Ta, L.
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Kate Davenport
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I wonder how much interest Miles is taking in his half-sisters and one third (?) brothers, since they are so far away physically and so different in age. I have had several friends with siblings and half siblings far away physically and/or chronologically and they run the gamut from being very close, to being cordial acquaintances, to being essentially strangers.
Martin
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Vorkosigan saga is brilliant. I'm pleasantly surprised how much I loved Vorpatril's alliance which led me to conclusion that you managed to achieve a specific mood where more than one character can be a main protagonist without changing "feeling" of the story which I believe is quite difficult :). Are you considering continuing quest star stories?
Anne Province
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This is a thank you for the epilogue in volume four of the Sharing Knife series, Horizon. I’d read them before, but just blew through them again this weekend with such enjoyment. Given our current political climate, malices, ground work, and beguilement have a very different meaning this read around. Did you have any political/authoritarian fears as you wrote these books?
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