“For me,
writing is more a process of ‘discovering’ the book than planning it.” –
Lois McMaster
Bujold
In 1947, the year I was born,
science fiction writer Robert Heinlein coined the term “speculative fiction” in
an editorial essay about writing science fiction and fantasy. Many authors were quick to adopt it as a way
to tell about the characters and ideas that they were creating from the other
worlds in their imaginations.
But few authors, other than Heinlein
of course, have been as successful in speculative fiction development as
Lois McMaster Bujold, who even eclipsed the great Heinlein in both her use of
speculative fiction and her awards and honors for those uses.
One of the most acclaimed writers in
her field, she won Science Fiction’s Hugo Award for best novel four times. Her novel Paladin
of Souls and her novella The Mountains of Mourning both “doubled,”
winning both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. And, in the fantasy genre, her Curse of Chalion won the
Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World
Fantasy Award for best novel.
A longtime resident of Ohio, she now
makes her home
in Minnesota where she is celebrating her 66th
birthday
today and, of course, continuing to work on what she 
playfully calls
“escapist literature.”
“Escapist literature gets a bad rap,” she said.
“But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.”
P.S. November is national novel writing month. Happy writing!
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