Mary Bertke
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This came up in my email even though it's two years old. Out of curiosity, what have been the real-world jumping off points for events?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lots of them mixed 'n matched over the years. (I just typo'd "loots of them," which is also true.) You'd have to specify if you want a particular answer, which you may do in the comments. (Although this question falls perilously close to "Where do you get your ideas?")
Somewhere in Sidelines: Talks and Essays there is iirc a series of six short essays I did for Eos back when The Sharing Knife was coming out, discussing the inspirations for that, mm, anti-epic, which would have more length scope than what I can type in this tiny answer box while drinking my morning tea.
Ta, L.
Somewhere in Sidelines: Talks and Essays there is iirc a series of six short essays I did for Eos back when The Sharing Knife was coming out, discussing the inspirations for that, mm, anti-epic, which would have more length scope than what I can type in this tiny answer box while drinking my morning tea.
Ta, L.
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(but I think by saying you weren’t sure what Moravian meant you already answered my question. Sorry! I just could not stop thinking about a planet that seems very Christian in their makeup and yet were so radically socially progressive about gender and sex, and the herm population always made me think of them. question mark to satisfy the ask-field-robot)?
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your recent novella "Knife Children". The entire story just made me happy. I'm now re-reading the Sharing Knife books, and enjoying them all over again. Are you planning anything else with the Lakewalkers? Thanks so much for all your work!
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois, Is there a map of the World of the Five Gods that also includes the locations for the Penric and Desdemona stories? I know you have mentioned that Chalion and Ibra are loosly based on the Iberian peninsula (inverted), does the similarity to Europe end there? I kind of imagine that Weald is somewhere around Germany, and Cedonia maybe Italy, am I way off?
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