[LMB] QOTD #2: Which aspect explored further? (Wed. Feb. 20)

[Tzivia Adler]

>> Which aspect of the Bujold worlds (in any series) would you like to
>> see explored further?
>
i want more about the koudelka sisters, either before or after ACC. 
especially, i want an expansion of kareen's remark about miles making them 
into a marching group... i can just imagine...

and considering the popularity of winterfaire gifts, i wonder how a book of 
miles short stories would go over?  and how hard it would be to write?  are 
shorts harder than full length novels?  i seem to remember the 'aftermath' 
section of shards of honor as a seperate short somewhere...


> (I'm torn between wanting to shout "More books! Faster!" versus "Keep the
> quality up at all costs!"  But, quality has to win.)
>
sigh... BOTH


> How about Helen Natalie's assault on the Imperial Military Academy as the
> first of the equal rights integration ordered by her doting foster-uncle
> Gregor?  I don't know what to do with Aral Alexander
> Ed
>
i really, really want to see a book where helen n. is passionate about 
politics, although not necessarily the military aspect of that.  by the time 
she is old enough be her father's Voice in the coucil of counts, lord dono 
will be as well established as mutie miles is now.  how much will that 
affect 'women can't...' things?  will they still be barred by their gender 
from most oaths, as is lady alys in memory?

i also want aral a. to be really, really passionate about growing flowers, 
with even less interest than uncle mark about politics (shudder of horror). 
will miles know how to deal with a kid who has no interst at all in what 
drives him so strongly?  or will he throw up his hands and turn a.a. over to 
ekaterin?

i'm sure that it would appeal to mile's sense of humour and his 'wall' game 
to sponsor helen n. to politics, if that's still an issue, but to support 
his own kid turning away from politics?  that would be harder.  and if helen 
n.'s politics were really oposed to his, and she could make good arguments 
for ehr ideas, i.e. not just daddy said up so i say down!  that would 
throurouly break his heart, wouln't it?  bec miles is -always- in the right.

ziviya, probly being to specific.  anyone want to perpetrate future-fic?