Connie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you incorporate current social or political issues into your stories?
Lois McMaster Bujold
What an odd question. I don't think you can have read my stories yet.
The short answer is No. More specifically, I do not write stories to explore issues, especially contemporary aka ephemeral ones. I write to explore characters. Various readers, at various times, have read their social or political concerns into the tales, variously; but this is more a measure of the reader than the story. (Studying reader responses to the same story over, say, four 10-year intervals will illustrate this nicely. For especial interest, reduce the variable array by one more and look at the same reader's readings over 4 decades.)
Ta, L.
(Stories are Rorschach blots, I swear.)
What an odd question. I don't think you can have read my stories yet.
The short answer is No. More specifically, I do not write stories to explore issues, especially contemporary aka ephemeral ones. I write to explore characters. Various readers, at various times, have read their social or political concerns into the tales, variously; but this is more a measure of the reader than the story. (Studying reader responses to the same story over, say, four 10-year intervals will illustrate this nicely. For especial interest, reduce the variable array by one more and look at the same reader's readings over 4 decades.)
Ta, L.
(Stories are Rorschach blots, I swear.)
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Chris Neary
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois, I was curious as to wether you have ever been approached about writing any Star Wars novels? Would that be something you would be interested in? I often wondered how the process would work, would you be given a storyline and go with that, obviously sticking to certain histories within the canon. Apologies if you have been asked this many times which i suspect you have. Thank you for your time.
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