Ruth Tomandl
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! Thank you for the Vorkosigan books; I just finished Captain Vorpatril's alliance and I love what good, kind people the characters are and how much they're able to help each other; it's an optimistic lens for the real world. I appreciated your thoughts in this interview: https://nautil.us/does-science-fiction-shape-the-future-543468/ did any of the other authors' answers surprise you or make you think?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Since I'd met several of my colleagues along the way at cons and such, I didn't find the range of answers surprising, no. I was a little startled at how much Cory Doctorow and I were on the same page about not trusting SF writers, or writing, with real-world decisions. In almost the same words, though mine were do-not-quote.
Ta, L.
Since I'd met several of my colleagues along the way at cons and such, I didn't find the range of answers surprising, no. I was a little startled at how much Cory Doctorow and I were on the same page about not trusting SF writers, or writing, with real-world decisions. In almost the same words, though mine were do-not-quote.
Ta, L.
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Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Other than being raised with a strong moral code and sense of noblesse oblige, it seems that despite the Council of Counts and the Ministers, the only real check of the Emperor’s power is the threat of the Emperor becoming disliked enough to send enough popular support over to a relative to win a coup, hence Yuri’s Massacre and Barrayar’s stated bloody history. Or has there been a balancing act of power shifts?
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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