“For me, writing is more a process
of ‘discovering’ the book than planning it.” – Lois
McMaster Bujold
Few
authors have been as successful in “speculative” fiction development as
McMaster Bujold, who even eclipsed the great Robert 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, Bujold 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. The Chalion series was named 2018's "Best Series" by the Hugos. 
A longtime resident of Ohio, she now
makes her home in
Minnesota where she celebrated her 70th birthday yesterday and
continues to work on what she now playfully calls “escapist
literature.”
A longtime resident of Ohio, she now
makes her home in
Minnesota where she celebrated her 70th birthday yesterday and
continues to work on what she now 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.”
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