Christopher Winter
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois...I just finished "Dangerous Liaisons" (the book, although seeing the movie inspired the reading), and I was wondering if it had any influence on your backstory for Aral's first wife and her affairs in the capital amongst "not altogether vicious" older people. Or were these ideas in the air, or in your romance reading of the time?
Lois McMaster Bujold
No, I've neither read the book nor seen the film. There have, I see, been several media adaptations; I don't know what year the one you saw originated, but I might note I wrote Shards of Honor in 1983. (Mis-attributing influence to works that actually came later than whatever one is discussing is a pretty common error, but one that is happily easier to check nowadays.)
A quick check on Wikipedia finds the original French novel was published in 1782, so its ideas and tropes have likely been floating around descendant genres ever since then, possibly where I absorbed them. Though I will note that two-and-a-half centuries is plenty of time for other trope-sources to be created and disseminated.
Ta, L.
No, I've neither read the book nor seen the film. There have, I see, been several media adaptations; I don't know what year the one you saw originated, but I might note I wrote Shards of Honor in 1983. (Mis-attributing influence to works that actually came later than whatever one is discussing is a pretty common error, but one that is happily easier to check nowadays.)
A quick check on Wikipedia finds the original French novel was published in 1782, so its ideas and tropes have likely been floating around descendant genres ever since then, possibly where I absorbed them. Though I will note that two-and-a-half centuries is plenty of time for other trope-sources to be created and disseminated.
Ta, L.
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Dear Lois, Thank you for all the excellent hours of reading over the years. I really have to force myself to slow down when you have a new release because it's always bittersweet to wait a year or more for a book and then finish it in a day. I'm really enjoying penric. I'd write more, but I have to get to my question. Do you have any recommendations for someone looking for a new author to read?
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