Richard
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Give that Gentleman Jole takes palace more than 5 years after Vorpatril’s Alliance when the Barrayar government came into an unexpected influx of billions of marks, why is Sergyer still scrambling to build a second planetary base / spaceport? Did fatherhood turn Gregor stingy?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I suspect you underestimate how much planetary (or national) governments cost, and how many projects compete for funding. $406 billion for the US Federal alone for one year, a quick google suggests, not counting the states, or the rest of the planet. And we don't even have a space navy...
As some legislator once quipped, "A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money!"
Ta, L.
As some legislator once quipped, "A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money!"
Ta, L.
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I was lucky enough to be sent to work in the US for a couple of months back in October 1996, just in time for Memory in hardback and Cetaganda in paperback. You've mentioned before how your UK publisher dropped you after Paladin Of Souls (idiots that they were, in my opinion). I apologise if this has been asked and answered before, but how did Cetaganda not get a UK publication?
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