Clariana
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
What fantasy and sci-fi authors have most inspired you? Both before you started writing and while writing...
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm pretty sure I've answered this one before, a couple of times, earlier in the Q&A column; scroll down. But to recap, pretty much everyone who was published in Analog Magazine in the 60s, and whatever I could find on my libraries' shelves during that decade. Worth particular mention are Cordwainer Smith, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Anne McCaffrey, Zenna Henderson, L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, Eric Frank Russell, Tolkien of course, early Zelazny, and Fritz Leiber.
When I started writing, I had the most help from Patricia C. Wrede and Lillian Stewart Carl. (By that point, reading nonfiction became more useful for inspiring stories.)
Ta, L.
When I started writing, I had the most help from Patricia C. Wrede and Lillian Stewart Carl. (By that point, reading nonfiction became more useful for inspiring stories.)
Ta, L.
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Carmen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
That's fascinating--thanks for answering! So does Barrayaran imperial succession follows similar logic to the inheritance of Countships--in terms of being able to take into consideration things like suitability for the job or other factors, over totally inflexible male primogeniture over all other considerations (along the lines of what we saw with Rene Vorbretten)?
Henry
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just a comment about the difference of reading a physical book vs an ebook. I purchased "The Curse of Chalion" back in 2001 and held onto it for over 12 years before I got my first Kindle. The book shows all the wear and literally over a hundred times that I've gone through it - but the e-readers can't show any of that. Isn't there something very different from handling a physical book and flipping through pages?
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