Julie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I’m fascinated by the way your fictional universes address religion. The Vorkosiverse is secular, although individuals may have personal religious beliefs. In Chalion the gods are real, present, dangerous, and woven into most aspects of society. In the Sharing Knife world the gods seem equally real but have abandoned humanity. How did these approaches evolve? Was it fun playing with religion and society like that?
Lois McMaster Bujold
This is much too large a question to answer in this tiny typing box, though if you check my assorted interviews from around the times the books were published, you may find some material. https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
But yes, fun, in that peculiar, absorbing way that writing long projects is fun. (And frustrating, and tiring, and exhilarating, and many other things.)
Ta, L.
This is much too large a question to answer in this tiny typing box, though if you check my assorted interviews from around the times the books were published, you may find some material. https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
But yes, fun, in that peculiar, absorbing way that writing long projects is fun. (And frustrating, and tiring, and exhilarating, and many other things.)
Ta, L.
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Talli Ruksas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is Aral's middle name Selig, making it actually little Selig's middle name? If so, what is his first name? Or is it Grandpa Sasha's middle name? Or did they not go with tradition? I know it's certainly a name in Vorkosigan history. You use a lot of British idioms in the V books - is that to give them a certain "not from around here" flavor, or just phrases you yourself use, or?
Margarete
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In your description of Miles' clothing, you often use the words jacket and tunic, like in A Civil Campaign when he shows Ekaterin the little admiral, His mercenary uniform has a jacket but his Auditor's grey suit has a tunic. You especially refer to Barrayaran uniforms as having tunic tops. I always read tunic and see sleeve-less and long to the mid-thigh, but that can't be right. How do you envision the tunic tops?
Jerri
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is Winterfair held on the Winter Solstice, or just close to it? In any case, on the Solstice in the US, I wish you and all Bujold readers a happy Winterfair and may Father Frost bring you as much joy as the writings of LMB have brought to me. (I just finished a re-listen to Winterfair Gifts!!)
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