Donald McEntee
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you seen?: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/march-web-only/this-fantasy-novelist-showed-me-what-it-means-to-fear-god.html
Lois McMaster Bujold
Interesting take.
As a rule of thumb, what any reader will get out of a work is sensitively dependent on what they bring to it, since beyond the words-in-a-row blueprint the writer supplies to all identically, the construction materials are sourced locally.
A worked example of the process may be had by anyone comparing the high and low star rating reviews on any of my works, which Amazon will handily collate for one. Anyone contemplating the range who thinks, "It doesn't sound as if they read the same book," is quite right; or, more precisely, didn't experience the same book.
Ta, L.
Interesting take.
As a rule of thumb, what any reader will get out of a work is sensitively dependent on what they bring to it, since beyond the words-in-a-row blueprint the writer supplies to all identically, the construction materials are sourced locally.
A worked example of the process may be had by anyone comparing the high and low star rating reviews on any of my works, which Amazon will handily collate for one. Anyone contemplating the range who thinks, "It doesn't sound as if they read the same book," is quite right; or, more precisely, didn't experience the same book.
Ta, L.
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Alealea
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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?
Brad
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Ms. Bujold, Hope you don't mind information rather than a question? I thought you might enjoy this Washington Post article, as what is happening with maggots is remarkably similar to your Butter Bugs idea in the Vorkosigan Saga: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/03/maggots-could-revolutionize-global-food-supply-heres-how/ Sincerely, Brad Berens
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