Juan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
More than a question, I want to thank you very much because your books, especially those of Miles Vorkosigan, helped me to overcome a bad moment in my life. Thank you very much, what was your inspiration to create Miles? Sorry if the message was badly written but I used the google translator and little knowledge in English
Lois McMaster Bujold
You are welcome!
Miles came from a number of braided sources, but his beginning was in his parents' story (like everyone else's, I suppose.) Before I'd finished my first novel, before I knew his name or anything else, I knew Aral and Cordelia would have a short, disabled son on Barrayar but, given his parents, he'd probably be quite bright. The energy and charisma, he generated for himself as his story got rolling.
(Young Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence were two other sources that contributed a few more elements, and his Great Man's Son Syndrome owes some of its insight to my relationship with my own father.)
Ta, L.
You are welcome!
Miles came from a number of braided sources, but his beginning was in his parents' story (like everyone else's, I suppose.) Before I'd finished my first novel, before I knew his name or anything else, I knew Aral and Cordelia would have a short, disabled son on Barrayar but, given his parents, he'd probably be quite bright. The energy and charisma, he generated for himself as his story got rolling.
(Young Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence were two other sources that contributed a few more elements, and his Great Man's Son Syndrome owes some of its insight to my relationship with my own father.)
Ta, L.
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Talli Ruksas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you give GG a pronunciation guide? Some words are pronounced differently in different audio books and sometimes in the same book - Dendarii, Galeni, Radovas, Ky, etc. Any hints? Is By bi? Do you think Richars was the one who lied to By's father about him? Do you know the names of Cordelia's other 4 girls like she does?
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