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The obituary you wrote after his death is great, in a sad way.

Thanks for doing this! Two questions:

1. In your experience: What is the average life time of a news story? How long can you run coverage on a topic before the user loses interest?

2. Considering the popularity of plugins such as Adblocker, what are your thoughts on online ads? Is it possible to find a balance between what the user and the customer both would find acceptable?

Dear Mrs Bujold,

first of all thank you for doing this IAMA. First of all I want to say that you are the main reason my brother hated me as a teen, since I used to steal from his piggy bank in order to get your books.

I have several questions and would be delighted if you could answer any of them:

1. You have been working within the Vorkosigan universe for almost 3 decades now. Has there ever been a point where you felt that working with the Vorkosigan characters was more of an obligation than pleasure?

2. What where the toughest lessons you learned when you first tried to break from SF into Fantasy?

3. The spoiler was one of the toughest reads for me and with the last novel leading to spoiler I feel that you are taking care of all the lose ends in the Vorkosigan saga. Are you going to end writing in this Universe (except of course Bean offers you ridiculous amounts of money)?

4. Can you explain why Bean is still doing cover art that reminds me of the early 90s?

5. Have you ever made a mental list of actors who would be perfect fits for your characters (for a potential TV show)?

I am a scientist (postdoc level) who plans to leave academic research. I worked in Europe and in the US. What are the biggest differences in resume styles between those areas a European should keep in mind? And what are common mistakes made by people who would like to transition from academia to industry?

Hi, I don't know if you saw it but his answer accidentally got posted here