Kirshy

Kirshy asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I just finished the Sharing Knife series and was wondering if you plan on revisiting the world again in the (near) future? Also, what are the malices? Any chance we will get an idea of their true origin?

Lois McMaster Bujold I don't have any plans at this time for visiting the deep backstory of that world. Other things, well, never say never, but I have nothing to report at this time. The malices were a kind of magical-scientific accident, possibly during some pursuit of powering up mage-craft and pursuing immortality; they partake of something human crossed with something nonhuman. They do seem to have something insectoid in their makeup, but it may also include theft of aspects from the now-absent gods. (If there ever were gods.) Howsoever the individual elements that went into them were healthy enough in their original forms, the amalgam was a disaster.

Ta, L.

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