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04/26/2003 Archived Entry: "Bujold Interview"

I've been rereading a lot of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books, after getting Diplomatic Immunity, the most recent one, from the library. Here's an interview with her by Mike Houlahan. "I was already thinking in terms of an open-ended series back as far as 1986, although I wasn't yet sure, then, that the books would prove successful enough to allow it. I had a structural model from the Hornblower books, which I'd read back in my teens, of many separate books forming an arc of a character's biography, which struck me as really artistically roomy. The details of Miles's universe have been built up story by story, so in that sense they were a surprise. The accumulation was brought home to me recently when I proofread text for an upcoming gaming book (GURPS Vorkosigan) that will allow role-playing gamers to play in my universe. There was a whole book's worth of material just on my books' background!"