Nicola Pike
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Being one of the first authors to write romance into science fiction, what are your thoughts to the direction SFR has taken?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I am most certainly not one of the first to write romance into SF -- E. E. "Doc" Smith and Anne McCaffrey preceded me by decades, among many, many others.
SFR (Science Fiction Romance, for the uninitiated) has hived off subsequently into its own commercially viable subgrenre, and I haven't been keeping up with its developments.
I'm enough of an old SF hand that I feel that if one is going to make a romance central to an SF story, the new technology, science, and/or world-building should make a difference to how the old reproductive dance plays out. Not just drop a bog-standard romance down in front of an SFnal backdrop. But people write and read this stuff for many more varied reasons than I do, so that's more an observation of my own tastes than a god-forbid prescription to anyone else.
Ta, L.
I am most certainly not one of the first to write romance into SF -- E. E. "Doc" Smith and Anne McCaffrey preceded me by decades, among many, many others.
SFR (Science Fiction Romance, for the uninitiated) has hived off subsequently into its own commercially viable subgrenre, and I haven't been keeping up with its developments.
I'm enough of an old SF hand that I feel that if one is going to make a romance central to an SF story, the new technology, science, and/or world-building should make a difference to how the old reproductive dance plays out. Not just drop a bog-standard romance down in front of an SFnal backdrop. But people write and read this stuff for many more varied reasons than I do, so that's more an observation of my own tastes than a god-forbid prescription to anyone else.
Ta, L.
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I just wanted to let you know about something weird I've just noticed about your Vorkosigan books? On both Amazon and Audible, the series is called "Miles Vorsokigan". I got *really* confused for a minute, wondering how I could be misremembering Vorkosigan so poorly for 3+decades, until I saw that the books are all labeled correctly. It's just the "collection" or whatever it's called that's wrong. FYI. :)
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In 2016 the 40th Wiscon is coming up. Do you think you might attend / Are you considering attending the convention? I would be delighted to meet you there if you go.
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