[LMB] Polly Oliver on Barrayar?

[Phil Boswell]

On 14/02/07, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
[snip about disguised female soldiers]
> ***  Actually, while disguised female soldiers were likely common in the
> Time of Isolation, they'd have been eliminated on modern Barrayar by the
> same techno-social innovation that did the job in our world -- the
> induction physical.  That late 19th C. medical invention ended an era in
> more ways than one, I suspect.

Unless, of course, the person conducting the physical had been
subverted or was indeed themselves female ;-)

Which is where the nod to Pterry would come in >:)
-- 
Phil