Human life requires Earth-based botanical life, and Bujold devotes a good deal of attention in some novels to this.

The Nexus allows Bujold, paradoxically, to imagine a world in which travel and communication require far more time and effort than in the real-life 21st century, since the wormhole jumps present a special barrier.

The Fivefold Pathway does not exist as an independent book ; a fanfictional version existed at one time on the Bujold fansite, http :// www. dendarii. com /, but that text seems to have disappeared.

All five of its issues were published while the show was still on the air, and included letters from D. C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry, and most of the cast members, and an article by future Hugo and Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold.

At a court ball, he notices Mary's 18-year-old sister Anne ( Geneviève Bujold ), who has just returned from her education in France.

While that film featured a larger " all star " cast ( in fact, Universal had approached several, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, to star in Earthquake-but they had already been signed for Inferno ), Universal was able to land Charlton Heston in the lead role, along with Ava Gardner ( who signed at the proverbial " 11th hour " simply because she wanted to spend the summer in Los Angeles ), George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold ( who agreed to a part in the film to head off an impending lawsuit by Universal over a prior project ), Richard Roundtree ( riding a wave of success from the Shaft film series ), former evangelical Marjoe Gortner as an antagonist, and newcomer Victoria Principal.

After an absence from filmmaking of almost a decade, Almond was called in to direct the film Final Assignment ( 1980 ), and went on directing three more films ; Ups and Downs ( 1983 ), Captive Hearts ( 1987 ) and The Dance Goes On ( 1991 ), the later featuring once again Bujold, and their son Matt Almond.

Paul Almond was first married to National Ballet of Canada leading dancer Angela Leigh, then to Geneviève Bujold from 1967 to 1973, their son, Matthew James Almond, was born in 1968.

Professional science fiction writers who have written drabbles include Brian Aldiss and Gene Wolfe ( both of whom contributed to " The Drabble Project ) and Lois McMaster Bujold ( whose novel Cryoburn finishes with a sequence of five drabbles, each told from the point of view of a different character ).

Bujold devised for this planet a history which allowed for “ swords ‘ n ’ spaceships .” Barrayar in the lifetime of Miles Vorkosigan commands spaceships, computers, and other high technology, but its culture remembers dueling, examines newborns for defects and practices infanticide if any are found, celebrates the Emperor ’ s birthday by handing him bags of gold, and provides liveried life-sworn servants to carry love-letters sealed with the writer's blood.

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.

* Athos, a fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold

Athos, a three mooned planet undergoing extensive terraforming, is what author Lois McMaster Bujold refers to as a " monastery " planet, similar to real-life all-male cloisters.

Instead, Bujold builds prejudice into the “ locale ,” i. e. planetary, economics and history.

Bujold ’ s future is one in which genetic manipulation can produce almost any kind of clone or hybrid.

It is published in the book entitled Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma, which is a collection of short stories and essays by Bujold that had been previously unpublished and that she gathered together in this volume prior to her appearance at a NESFA convention.

The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction ( Bob Clark ), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role ( Geneviève Bujold ) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role ( Christopher Plummer ).

He went on to star with Geneviève Bujold in Antigone which was later made into a film in 1974.

* Stunners in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold which causes a temporary reduction in nerve activity within a radius of the impact site.

* The Bujold Nexus – Official website of the author Lois McMaster Bujold

Cetaganda is the collective name for an 8-planet empire in the Wormhole Nexus of the Vorkosigan Saga novels of Lois McMaster Bujold.

Lois McMaster Bujold ( Last name pronounced phonetically in American English as " Bu-Jold "; born November 2, 1949, Columbus, Ohio ) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.

Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.

Lois McMaster Bujold at Finncon 2012 in Tampere, Finland.

The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

Bujold ’ s approach varies, sometimes crossing genres.

The various forms of society and government Bujold presents often reflect 20th-century politics.

Bujold herself has commented that her posited system is neither technologically nor economically feasible, but is rather a convenience for storytelling.

Bujold presents issues of technological obsolescence and the high rate of failure of R & D projects in personal terms, via bioengineering.

Bujold presents a variety of realistic food supply technologies, including hydroponics, cultured or vat-grown meat, and fish farming.

Although Bujold explores and satirizes many kinds of societies and prejudices, her universe lacks or fails to consider several sources of social organization and prejudice on Earth: language, skin color, and religion.

The novels have been translated into a number of languages ; see the catalog of covers of various international editions at Bujold Cover Art Archive.

When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold incorporated these elements, but greatly expanded.

Selectman is almost always a part-time position that pays only a token or no salary.

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

When drawing an object or figure, the skilled artist pays attention to both the area within the silhouette and what lies outside.

" His majesty ( Akbar ) pays much attention to various stuffs ; hence Irani, Ottoman, and Mongolian articles of wear are in much abundance especially textiles embroidered in the patterns of Nakshi, Saadi, Chikhan, Ari, Zardozi, Wasli, Gota and Kohra.

The little girls screams in extreme pain, but no one pays the slightest attention.

This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves.

'"-Next day Marlow pays little attention to the pilgrims as they bury " something " in a muddy hole.

His view on class division and technocracy are as follows " Since when no one works for another, the profiteer from wealth disappears, just as government will disappear when no one pays attention to those who learned four things at universities and from that fact they pretend to govern men.

It is important to clarify, and indeed emphasize, that the attention Merleau-Ponty pays to diverse forms of art ( visual, plastic, literary, poetic, etc.

A computer search identifies Hart as the female FBI agent best qualified to go undercover as a contestant, although she pays little attention to her femininity.

Moore goes on to explain that he pays special attention to the fallacy as it occurs in ethics, and identifies that specific form of the fallacy as ' naturalistic ', because ( 1 ) it is so commonly committed in ethics, and ( 2 ) because committing the fallacy in ethics involves confusing a natural object ( such as survival or pleasure ) with goodness, something that is ( he argues ) not a natural object.

She pays special attention to the deeds and misdeeds of Nike, The Gap, McDonald's, Shell, and Microsoft-and of their lawyers, contractors, and advertising agencies.

Philosophy of language pays more attention to natural languages or to languages in general, while semiotics is deeply concerned about non-linguistic signification.

In childhood, Vātsyāyana says, a person should learn how to make a living ; youth is the time for pleasure, and as years pass one should concentrate on living virtuously and hope to escape the cycle of rebirth. The Kama Sutra acknowledges that the senses can be dangerous: ' Just as a horse in full gallop, blinded by the energy of his own speed, pays no attention to any post or hole or ditch on the path, so two lovers, blinded by passion, in the friction of sexual battle, are caught up in their fierce energy and pay no attention to danger '( 2. 7. 33 ).

However, a short time before, Anna becomes jealous of the attention Flo pays to Audrey and divorces Flo.

Hymes promoted what he and others call “ ethnopoetics ,” an anthropological method of transcribing and analyzing folklore and oral narrative that pays attention to poetic structures within speech.

The practitioner pays particular attention to the verbal and non-verbal responses as the client defines the present state and desired state and any resources that may be required to bridge the gap.

This selection of facts, in large part, enables him to write about patriotism, for example, as he always pays a lot of attention to events in Hispania.

He is an extremely good student, which exasperates his teachers when he sometimes pays them no attention.

* Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film by Tony Pipolo ( Oxford University Press ; 407 pages ; 2010 ) pays particular attention to psychosexual aspects of the French filmmaker's 13 features, from Les Anges du peche ( 1943 ) to L ' Argent ( 1983 ).

" Religion and Philosophy in Germany " describes the replacement of traditional " spiritualist " religion by a pantheism which pays attention to human material needs.

The film pays particular attention to the various inside jokes, scams, put-ons, and happenings for which Kaufman was famous, most significantly his long-running " feud " with wrestler Jerry " The King " Lawler and his portrayal of the bawdy lounge singer Tony Clifton.

An immense, statuesque woman with coils of dark red hair, she pays little attention to her family or the rest of Gormenghast.

It pays strict attention to function and makes full use of the most up-to-date materials and technologies available at the beginning of the 20th century ( e. g., steel framing ).