Will Bodine
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois McMaster Bujold, First of all, in my household, my father regarded you as the best that SciFi had to offer and it was stories of Miles retold to me as an asthmatic child in the ER, for the umpteenth time impatiently breathing away through a nebuliser cursing myself and my asthma for millionth time, that place you upon so high a pedestal. Was Dubauer based upon a real life person?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Pre-nerve-disruptor Dubauer wasn't based on anyone in particular; though he barely had stage time to develop before unfortunate plot events happened to him. His behavior post-damage during the trek was inspired and informed by my experiences chasing one-year-old toddlers. It's an age when they are just getting into that suicidal-mania stage, pre-verbal and post-mobile, lasting the next couple of years that gives so many parents heart attacks.
Which also gave Aral and Cordelia a chance to subconsciously scope each other out as prospective parents.
I'm glad my work served you!
Ta, L.
Pre-nerve-disruptor Dubauer wasn't based on anyone in particular; though he barely had stage time to develop before unfortunate plot events happened to him. His behavior post-damage during the trek was inspired and informed by my experiences chasing one-year-old toddlers. It's an age when they are just getting into that suicidal-mania stage, pre-verbal and post-mobile, lasting the next couple of years that gives so many parents heart attacks.
Which also gave Aral and Cordelia a chance to subconsciously scope each other out as prospective parents.
I'm glad my work served you!
Ta, L.
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KEVIN KILFOIL
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I note with regret that you say you are semi-retired. I assume that this means that your literary output will be at a slower pace than before. I am greedy for as many Bujold stories as possible. Would you ever consider working with younger co-authors to put out new books? I would expect that you would be reluctant to let Miles, Pen, Ivan, Elli, et al 'leave home', but other authors seem to be doing this.
Norina D Myers
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I loved The Sharing Knife ,books read over and over, will there be a follow up of the ofsprings?
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.
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