Paul Nolan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
As a sci-fi fan of books and films/tv, it seems a shame that more of your work hasn’t made its way to the big or small screen. (I see only one credit for you on the IMDb website.) Anything in development on these fronts?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope. Not a peep. Alas, it's not up to me. Media is a buyer's market, and the buyers are the producers, the folks with money, other people's or their own -- or both, given the high costs of production.
I suspect few of them are Bujold readers.
Adapting my material also has a hidden hazard in its interiority --a lot of what readers enjoy is actually taking place inside the characters' heads, where the camera cannot go, or in the stylistic voice (which are mostly one and the same, in my choice of tight viewpoint.) It's the great strength of prose fiction, so I play to it hard, but removing that whole layer for visual media would cost a lot of depth.
Ta, L.
Nope. Not a peep. Alas, it's not up to me. Media is a buyer's market, and the buyers are the producers, the folks with money, other people's or their own -- or both, given the high costs of production.
I suspect few of them are Bujold readers.
Adapting my material also has a hidden hazard in its interiority --a lot of what readers enjoy is actually taking place inside the characters' heads, where the camera cannot go, or in the stylistic voice (which are mostly one and the same, in my choice of tight viewpoint.) It's the great strength of prose fiction, so I play to it hard, but removing that whole layer for visual media would cost a lot of depth.
Ta, L.
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Andrea
asked
Lois McMaster Bujold:
Thank you so much for your wonderful books-- they have provided so much solace and entertainment to me in hard times. After much patient eBay stalking, I've finally managed to obtain a copy of every Vorkosigan book published by Easton Press. Will Easton Press ever continue with their leather bound editions of the series?
Carro
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I was just recommended Paladin's Grace by T Kingfisher, have read it and really enjoyed it - the romance with the protagonists tripping over their own feet and the baggage from their pasts reminded me of A Civil Campaign. I thought you might enjoy it so came to see if you'd already read it - and found you are already listing almost everything by T Kingfisher - except Paladin's Grace. So, a new one for you?
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