Kirshy

Kirshy asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I just finished the Sharing Knife series and was wondering if you plan on revisiting the world again in the (near) future? Also, what are the malices? Any chance we will get an idea of their true origin?

Lois McMaster Bujold I don't have any plans at this time for visiting the deep backstory of that world. Other things, well, never say never, but I have nothing to report at this time. The malices were a kind of magical-scientific accident, possibly during some pursuit of powering up mage-craft and pursuing immortality; they partake of something human crossed with something nonhuman. They do seem to have something insectoid in their makeup, but it may also include theft of aspects from the now-absent gods. (If there ever were gods.) Howsoever the individual elements that went into them were healthy enough in their original forms, the amalgam was a disaster.

Ta, L.

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Ben asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Dear Ms. McMaster Bujold, Thank you so much for answering all these questions! Of the Vorkosigan books, A Civil Campaign is especially delightful because it's a departure from the tone of the series -- I always think of it as a comedy of manners after lots of (wonderful) space opera, military fiction, family drama, etc. Did you conceive of it this way? Are there other modes that you'd like to write in but haven't?

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Does it annoy you when people tell you their dreams? Last night I dreamed that an insane seafarer showed up, trying to deliver to Penric a boatful of holy animals. Penric was really not sure what to do with them, but the man turned out to be neither exactly insane nor demon-possessed, but instead some kind of botched and inside-out saint. (No idea.) Pen was trying to think what would happen if he brought him to Iroki.

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