Diane Duncan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi! Thankyou for your novels. With the Vorkosigan universe, Do you ever privately worry about the trouble left behind in that universe from some of the endings of your books? (My husband and I’ve speculated 200 years later, when Eli Quinn’s genes have saturated Athos, curious and competently violent telepaths running roughshod over the rest of the universe. )
Lois McMaster Bujold
I wouldn't say worry, exactly... mildly speculate, perhaps.
The trouble with real-world prognostication it that it tends to straight-line thinking, "if this goes on", when in fact events are a giant snarl of many factors all of them constantly changing, interacting and mutating, with new and unanticipated ones jumping in from the side out of seeming-nowhere. Realistic fictional speculation should share a touch of this, I think.
Ta, L.
The trouble with real-world prognostication it that it tends to straight-line thinking, "if this goes on", when in fact events are a giant snarl of many factors all of them constantly changing, interacting and mutating, with new and unanticipated ones jumping in from the side out of seeming-nowhere. Realistic fictional speculation should share a touch of this, I think.
Ta, L.
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Briantoby
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Not a question, but I'd like to pass on an article published yesterday on extra-uterine gestation (https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112; Summary at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/artificial-womb-lambs-premature-babies-health-science/) published yesterday that immediately brought you to mind. Never thought I would see this in my lifetime! Interested?
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