Richard
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you still get a warm feeling when a reviewer, new to you work, calls your writing masterful? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2z-0RRFYzo&t=2s
Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh, sure! Also, the enthusiasm of this reviewer is pretty charming.
But the thing I still marvel at the most is how books that were written with the expectation that they would have a bookstore shelf life of maybe two years are still gaining brand-new readers decades later -- some of whom, alarmingly to me, weren't even born at the time of the works' first publication. To me, that is really beating the odds, especially in a genre that risks becoming dated very rapidly.
Ta, L.
Oh, sure! Also, the enthusiasm of this reviewer is pretty charming.
But the thing I still marvel at the most is how books that were written with the expectation that they would have a bookstore shelf life of maybe two years are still gaining brand-new readers decades later -- some of whom, alarmingly to me, weren't even born at the time of the works' first publication. To me, that is really beating the odds, especially in a genre that risks becoming dated very rapidly.
Ta, L.
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Laer Carroll
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
A few years ago I read a book about bioscientist Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues who discovered a powerful way to modify genes (Code Breaker, by Walter Isaacson). It reads like a detective mystery & is as compelling. It shows how scientists cooperate to expand knowledge, and compete for credit for their successes in doing so. Have you read the book? Have any thoughts on it?
Anne Province
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
This is a thank you for the epilogue in volume four of the Sharing Knife series, Horizon. I’d read them before, but just blew through them again this weekend with such enjoyment. Given our current political climate, malices, ground work, and beguilement have a very different meaning this read around. Did you have any political/authoritarian fears as you wrote these books?
Pierre-Alexandre Sicart
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Is there a way to search through questions? I can't find it, yet it's probable my question today has already been asked and answered. What is the necklace you're wearing in your profile pic? I've only just noticed that it's the same you were wearing at the 2012 National Book Festival.
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