Charmaine Neufeld
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I’ve read the Vorkosigan books many times and continue to love them! In recent years I’ve moved mainly to reading audiobooks. I would like to listen to this series on repeat cause Miles is just one of my favourites, but the narrator is not. Any thoughts on having the audiobooks redone with a narrator that reflects more of Miles personality?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nope, none whatsoever. Blackstone has been doing a great job for years at getting all my titles out, both at online vendors and in libraries.
Narrator's voice and style seem to be a very personal taste, like cilantro. I hear from plenty of folks who love Grover Gardner's, a few now and then like you who bounce off.
I'm not a big audio consumer myself; for whatever reason spoken prose does not flow seamlessly into pictures in my head the way written does. It may be a matter of practice, which may shift as my eyes age, but since my ears are aging even faster, who knows.
Ta, L.
Nope, none whatsoever. Blackstone has been doing a great job for years at getting all my titles out, both at online vendors and in libraries.
Narrator's voice and style seem to be a very personal taste, like cilantro. I hear from plenty of folks who love Grover Gardner's, a few now and then like you who bounce off.
I'm not a big audio consumer myself; for whatever reason spoken prose does not flow seamlessly into pictures in my head the way written does. It may be a matter of practice, which may shift as my eyes age, but since my ears are aging even faster, who knows.
Ta, L.
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Kevin Reitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I’ve been thinking that the Sharing Knife books are your strongest and have the most profound emotional punch. My theory is that the settings come directly from your home culture and resonate especially well with readers from the same historical atmosphere. There’s endless presumed knowledge you can draw on and—no small thing—a rich vernacular to exploit. I wonder if it feels that way from the author’s perspective?
Andrew Van Ness
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love your work as many do. I was wondering if you ever plan to definitively end the Vorkosigan Series? I want it to continue forever, again as many do, but I also realize that all good things come to an end. You are one of my favorite science-fiction authors because you infuse such realism into your world and characters. In the real world there aren't any definitive endings, and so I wonder, what is to come?
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