Laer Carroll
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
As with all your characters, I wonder where they, physically and emotionally, go after the book. Do Cordelia & Jole have a wedding, with all the possibilities of it comedicly going mis-aright? What happens when one is posted off-planet?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Sounds like a job for FanficWoman. Or FanficMan, I suppose. (Although don't ask, don't tell -- me at least.)
More seriously, it is a good thing when one's world-building, not to mention character-building, appears to readers to run past the edge of the page or the end of the book. It suggests they have actually become engaged with one's art, which is kind of the goal.
To answer your more specific questions, Cordelia and Jole never marry, although after 20 or more years of it they might as well be, and neither gets posted off planet (although they may travel) because they are both very soon out of the sorts of jobs that can compel such things.
(Though it does occur to me that their 20th anniversary will be a strange frisson for Jole, because it will mark the beginning of more years than he'd been with Aral, and their 40th ditto for Cordelia. After that it's Sergyar Incognita for both.)
Ta, L.
Sounds like a job for FanficWoman. Or FanficMan, I suppose. (Although don't ask, don't tell -- me at least.)
More seriously, it is a good thing when one's world-building, not to mention character-building, appears to readers to run past the edge of the page or the end of the book. It suggests they have actually become engaged with one's art, which is kind of the goal.
To answer your more specific questions, Cordelia and Jole never marry, although after 20 or more years of it they might as well be, and neither gets posted off planet (although they may travel) because they are both very soon out of the sorts of jobs that can compel such things.
(Though it does occur to me that their 20th anniversary will be a strange frisson for Jole, because it will mark the beginning of more years than he'd been with Aral, and their 40th ditto for Cordelia. After that it's Sergyar Incognita for both.)
Ta, L.
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Briantoby
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
No question, but thought of you & Challion when reading this: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2117286-miniature-brain-and-skull-found-inside-16-year-old-girls-ovary/?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2017-1201-newGLOBAL&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS Love the Penric stories! Brian
Jerri
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is Winterfair held on the Winter Solstice, or just close to it? In any case, on the Solstice in the US, I wish you and all Bujold readers a happy Winterfair and may Father Frost bring you as much joy as the writings of LMB have brought to me. (I just finished a re-listen to Winterfair Gifts!!)
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