Danny
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
By now, there's a lot of telepathic teenagers running around on Athos, and sometimes amok as well. So, what happens then?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, that's a question I plan to leave to readerly speculation. However, if a double-dominant dose of the gene is required for the telepathy to kick in, in standard Mendelian inheritance patterns, it will actually be the second generation after Ethan that starts to show the effects, and then, of course, only if primed with enough tyramine. The very first actives would likely put it down to drunken hallucinations, with a few poor boys wondering if they were going crazy, till word got around.
Ta, L.
Ta, L.
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Kevin Reitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
There is more information in the average sentence you write, or the average paragraph, than most other writers I can think of. Is this consciously done? To explain what I mean, when I first saw a Michelangelo sculpture up close, I was amazed at how much information was contained in all the subtle carving choices he made. Far more observations, say, than in the Mona Lisa.
Andrew
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
The astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station is a Trekkie and has posed for pictures in the ISS in a Star Trek costume. Do you also have fans in high places? Other than us Goodreads followers, of course. (Trekkie astronaut picture: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/05/first_espresso_in_space/)
Steve
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you seen the film "Russian Ark"? It's a 90 minute long film that was shot in a single take. The camera wanders the halls of the Hermitage while encountering the ghosts of Catherine II and the Romanov girls. It finishes up with a re-creation of the last Russian state ball before the declaration of WWI. That major scene included thousands of extras. It made a great stand-in for Barrayar. Happy natal day!
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