Shane Castle
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
When you were producing “Penric’s Demon”, did you have any ideas of the stories to follow, or have they emerged more or less spontaneously from the story well, over time?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Both. My first notions were for an older Penric, but prior experience with series has shown me that skipping over large swathes of time tends to limit what stories can later go in between. Besides, I thought I could get to know him better by beginning at his beginning.
The particular details of each novella were developed one by one, in the writing. I like surprising myself. (And you all.)
I arrived at what eventually became the novel Falling Free, decades back, by a similar process. My first notions were for the race of quaddies in situ in their asteroid colony in Miles's time, but then I reasoned back to their necessary beginning, Leo popped up, and other characters and the story began to coalesce around him.
Ta, L.
Both. My first notions were for an older Penric, but prior experience with series has shown me that skipping over large swathes of time tends to limit what stories can later go in between. Besides, I thought I could get to know him better by beginning at his beginning.
The particular details of each novella were developed one by one, in the writing. I like surprising myself. (And you all.)
I arrived at what eventually became the novel Falling Free, decades back, by a similar process. My first notions were for the race of quaddies in situ in their asteroid colony in Miles's time, but then I reasoned back to their necessary beginning, Leo popped up, and other characters and the story began to coalesce around him.
Ta, L.
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Obinna
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
how long did it take for you to get the resources and connections to be well known name in the reading world ?
Zachary Jacobi
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
So often in fantasy that involves deities, they feel like rote miracle-granting machines. D&D takes this to absurd heights, where even the miracle of resurrection can be had at the cost of a couple of diamonds and a short prayer. Chalion is different. It's almost Kierkegaardian in it's theology; the gods are beautiful, absurd, and incomprehensible. I wept from the beauty of it. How did you create Chalion's theology?
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