Harald
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Ms Bujold, I'd like to say thank you for your books! I hope the question hasn't been asked yet, at least I couldn't find it: is the epidemic theme of the new Penric novella chance or do you write that fast? Second question, books remind me sometimes of paintings, yours, especially the novellas, of water-colors. I'm trying to figure out why, is it the story or something like rythm? Wish you a great summer!
Lois McMaster Bujold
The co-incidence of "The Physicians of Vilnoc" with current events was accidental. I'd planned the story last year, based on an amalgam of earlier historical models, run through the peculiarities of the world of the five gods. But it got off to a later start than I'd thought it would, and so the present pandemic more-or-less rose up around it.
Not writing it was, at that point deep in the creative process, a non-option, though I did wonder for a while about finishing but not publishing it. I finally concluded my readers could be trusted to decide for themselves whether it was anything they wanted to read right now. The story will, presumably, be around for years yet.
I like the watercolors analogy. Interesting personal connection.
Ta, L.
The co-incidence of "The Physicians of Vilnoc" with current events was accidental. I'd planned the story last year, based on an amalgam of earlier historical models, run through the peculiarities of the world of the five gods. But it got off to a later start than I'd thought it would, and so the present pandemic more-or-less rose up around it.
Not writing it was, at that point deep in the creative process, a non-option, though I did wonder for a while about finishing but not publishing it. I finally concluded my readers could be trusted to decide for themselves whether it was anything they wanted to read right now. The story will, presumably, be around for years yet.
I like the watercolors analogy. Interesting personal connection.
Ta, L.
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Stephen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Any chance of the story describing the episode "more than a simple assassination" that Miles mentions in A Civil Campaign? Or the one with a tenyearold girl as courier, mentioned in Komarr? Or are they doomed to be unvoiced backstory? Thanks for all the enjoyment you've provided already!
Cmorganusjuno.Com
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Where did you get the inspiration for the planet name "Zoave Twilight"? To what does it refure?
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