Marie

Marie asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

What Earth societies are your Vorkosiverse planets derived from? Some are made pretty clear: Escobar is Spanish / Central / South American, Kibou-Daini is Japanese with some Chinese, Barrayar is Russian / French / English / Greek. Cetaganda strikes me as slightly Chinese (imperial) but the names don't match; Komarr seemed French but one character shares a name with a town in Croatia, so.....

Lois McMaster Bujold Well, nothing in the Vorkosiverse was settled in "our" time, but rather, two hundred and more years into our future, when people may be assumed to have gotten around and mixed and split and recombined right here on Earth even more than now. Colonization also tends to divest languages en route. So a few ethnic names are not really enough to build a theory of future history upon.

Ta, L.

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More than a question, I want to thank you very much because your books, especially those of Miles Vorkosigan, helped me to overcome a bad moment in my life. Thank you very much, what was your inspiration to create Miles? Sorry if the message was badly written but I used the google translator and little knowledge in English

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