Will Bodine
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois McMaster Bujold, First of all, in my household, my father regarded you as the best that SciFi had to offer and it was stories of Miles retold to me as an asthmatic child in the ER, for the umpteenth time impatiently breathing away through a nebuliser cursing myself and my asthma for millionth time, that place you upon so high a pedestal. Was Dubauer based upon a real life person?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Pre-nerve-disruptor Dubauer wasn't based on anyone in particular; though he barely had stage time to develop before unfortunate plot events happened to him. His behavior post-damage during the trek was inspired and informed by my experiences chasing one-year-old toddlers. It's an age when they are just getting into that suicidal-mania stage, pre-verbal and post-mobile, lasting the next couple of years that gives so many parents heart attacks.
Which also gave Aral and Cordelia a chance to subconsciously scope each other out as prospective parents.
I'm glad my work served you!
Ta, L.
Pre-nerve-disruptor Dubauer wasn't based on anyone in particular; though he barely had stage time to develop before unfortunate plot events happened to him. His behavior post-damage during the trek was inspired and informed by my experiences chasing one-year-old toddlers. It's an age when they are just getting into that suicidal-mania stage, pre-verbal and post-mobile, lasting the next couple of years that gives so many parents heart attacks.
Which also gave Aral and Cordelia a chance to subconsciously scope each other out as prospective parents.
I'm glad my work served you!
Ta, L.
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Del Ross
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you read Run with the Horsemen, by Ferrol Sams? The protagonist is Miles, by another name and in another time and place. Your characters (and those of Dr. Sams) are brilliant, surprising, and so endearing as to make the craziness of their lives seem reasonable. Thank you for sharing your great gift with me and, I guess, the rest of the world.
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