Ben Newton
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
One of my favorite minor characters in the Vorkosigan Saga is Commander Cavilo from The Vor Game. Do you have any thoughts about what she got up to after serving her time?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Ah, there's a question often asked.
I don't think "serving her time" is a correct way to think of her, as she was never jailed. She got away with a remnant of Randall's Rangers; how long she held them together afterward is another open question, but I suspect not long. If nothing else she'd have had to abandon them so as to be less findable by Cetagandan hit squads. Whether she finally managed to evade them is another unanswered question. If not, she no longer exists as a potential plot generator. If so, she'd still want to stay as far away from that quadrant of the Nexus that contains both Barrayar and Cetaganda as possible. She's pretty twisty, but I don't think she's into the sort of deranged revenge as an end in itself that could cost her more than she stood to gain.
Not that she would turn up her nose at any revenge that came along as a bonus side effect of other efforts. But it wouldn't be a goal.
She was obviously an adrenaline junkie, or she wouldn't have been in the line of work in which we first encountered her. While she'd doubtless have less of that as she aged, her post-Vor Game employment could go to either legitimate or non-legitimate enterprises, as long as she saw profit in it for her.
Another open question is how much she learned from her Hegen Hub experiences, and what-all she identified, once she calmed down, as "That was a mistake -- let's not do that again."
Ta, L.
Ah, there's a question often asked.
I don't think "serving her time" is a correct way to think of her, as she was never jailed. She got away with a remnant of Randall's Rangers; how long she held them together afterward is another open question, but I suspect not long. If nothing else she'd have had to abandon them so as to be less findable by Cetagandan hit squads. Whether she finally managed to evade them is another unanswered question. If not, she no longer exists as a potential plot generator. If so, she'd still want to stay as far away from that quadrant of the Nexus that contains both Barrayar and Cetaganda as possible. She's pretty twisty, but I don't think she's into the sort of deranged revenge as an end in itself that could cost her more than she stood to gain.
Not that she would turn up her nose at any revenge that came along as a bonus side effect of other efforts. But it wouldn't be a goal.
She was obviously an adrenaline junkie, or she wouldn't have been in the line of work in which we first encountered her. While she'd doubtless have less of that as she aged, her post-Vor Game employment could go to either legitimate or non-legitimate enterprises, as long as she saw profit in it for her.
Another open question is how much she learned from her Hegen Hub experiences, and what-all she identified, once she calmed down, as "That was a mistake -- let's not do that again."
Ta, L.
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Tony Robinson
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is there any chance of getting more prequel novels in the Vorkosigan Saga? I have read all of the books, and one of my coworkers (who turned me on to them the books about 4 years ago) both would love to see a book detailing the Komarr revolt, or the Cetagandan occupation with focus on Aral and Piotr respectively.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you read the book about how Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues discovered a way to edit genes? It's titled The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. I've been reading follow-ups and it's not far-fetched to think that inside a decade or so we may be able to radically transform out bodies, even to changing our sex much more completely than the crude methods of today.
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