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Opinion: Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honor
Original at Fyrefly's Book
• Tue, Sep 15
By Fyrefly Shards of Honor is sci-fi, but it’s character-driven sci-fi. The technology is not the point of the story; you could replace all of the ray guns with swords and the spaceships with boats, and the novel would work just as well as a medieval fantasy. That’s because it’s not about the spaceships...
Realization
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Thu, Sep 3
Disclaimer: The characters and setting belong to Lois McMaster Bujold. “We were planning a small family wedding in the Vorkosigan House gardens next month. We want to get married before fall semester at the university,” Ivan said, looking from Ekaterin to his mother.
Beautiful and Functional
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Wed, Aug 26
Length: 1000 words Rating: General Classification: Missing scene, between the wedding in A Civil Campaign and Winterfair Gifts. Disclaimer: The characters and setting belong to Lois McMaster Bujold. Summary: Fashion and weaponry converge over the Residence tea tray.
What Laisa Needs to Know
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Sat, Aug 22
Length: 1663 words Rating: PG Classification: Missing scene, between the betrothal in Memory and the wedding in A Civil Campaign. For the Bujold ficathon 2009. Disclaimer: The character and setting belong to Lois McMaster Bujold.
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Sat, Aug 22
Length: 1500 words Rating: General Classification: Missing scene, between A Civil Campaign and Winterfair Gifts. For the Bujold ficathon 2009. Disclaimer: The characters and setting belong to Lois McMaster Bujold.
Comfy books
Original at phoenixrampant (WordPress)
• Tue, Jul 21
By phoenixrampant There are some books that are just comfy. Their voices are beloved, and reading them is like talking to an old and dear friend. For one reason or another I found myself bombarded by life in general a few weeks ago, so I pulled out an old and dear friend called The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster B...
Stumble Foot
Original at dearj (WordPress)
• Thu, May 7
By dearJ Dear J-I refuse to be sucked into discussing work today; instead I’ll happily talk about catching up on some of Lois McMaster Bujold’s latest works. After all, the Vorkosigan novels and stories are SO delicious that you could be forgiven for minor missteps like The Spirit Ring (it was oka...
Library notes
Original at Waukegan News Sun
• Thu, Apr 23
IL Book Club: "Barrayar" by Lois McMaster Bujold will be discussed at 7 pm Tuesday. Retirement: Learn how to determine where to put your savings and investments at 7 pm Wednesday. Presented by Mike Trahan who has developed retirement planning software. ...
Lois McMaster Bujold et la saga Vorkosigan
Original at Actusf
• Tue, Apr 21
France Lois McMaster Bujold : Rags and snatches, many of which turned out to be incomplete or just plain wrong by the time I arrived somewhere completely else, dumped out unceremoniously at some unexpected destination by the book just completed. ...
South metro town briefs
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Tue, Mar 10
MN Lois McMaster Bujold, author of "The Sharing Knife" and the Miles Vorkosigan series, will be at the Heritage Library at 7 pm on March 31. She has won the Hugo Award, given for excellence in the science fiction and fantasy genre, the Mythopoeic Award ...
Retro-Review: Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold
Original at kingofthenerds (WordPress)
• Fri, Feb 20
By Mike Lois McMaster Bujold Relatively early in the first of Young Miles’ two novels, The Warrior’s Apprentice that agile mind breeds Admiral Naismith. Miles’ alter ego that quickly becomes a mercenary leader and a distinct individual apart from Miles Vorkosigan. If there is one thing that B...
Fanfiction: "Frost" (Aral/Cordelia)
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Thu, Feb 19
Series: Vorkosigan Saga Genre: Romance Notes/Warnings: Done for 'red and white' for older_not_dead. Beta-read by beatrice_otter. Aral/Coredlia Disclaimer: The Vorkosigan Saga and characters within belong to Lois McMaster Bujold.
3) Passage [The Sharing Knife Volume Three]
Original at Fictionwise
• Wed, Feb 18
Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold--five-time winner of the Hugo Award--brings us the third installment in her New York Times bestselling romantic fantasy The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwi...
question of the day: What book series would you like to see ...
Original at Flick Filosopher
• Fri, Jan 30
NY - Jan 30, 2009 I’m awaiting the day when Lois McMaster Bujold’s science fiction series about Miles Vorkosigan [Amazon US] [Amazon UK], official, gentleman, and imperial ...
Opinion: Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt
Original at http
• Wed, Jan 28
• 2 related articles
By Fyrefly Recommendation: If you’re in the mood for rich, mature, original fantasy novels (or have run out of Guy Gavriel Kay books to read), Bujold is a good place to turn. I didn’t like The Hallowed Hunt quite as much as I did the other two Chalion books, but they’re all well-written and quite satisfy...
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
Original at http
• Tue, Jan 27
By mervih This time Miles Vorkosigan is in deep trouble. After the events in the previous book, Mirror Dance, he has seizures which is not good when you’re in the military no matter if that military is the space mercenaries or a planet-bound Barrayaran military. Miles is also afraid that if his boss Il...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Tue, Jan 27
By mervih When the mystery part starts, the plot starts to move much faster but the mystery isn’t the main thing in this book. The main thing is to face the consequences to you actions and growing up. This time Miles Vorkosigan is in deep trouble. After the events in the previous book, Mirror Dance,
The Sharing Knife: Beguilement by Lois McMaster Bujold
Original at http
• Mon, Jan 19
By madscientistnz Beguilement is available on-line for free until January 27; I started reading it on-line and had difficulty stopping to sleep! The library near me had both Beguilement and the next book Legacy available, I had to get them both out the next day. Beguilement is a fantasy that was del...
Around the Web – or Free (Legal) Reads
Original at http
• Fri, Jan 16
By bookdaze Back to free reads, Catherine Asaro posted her short story “The Spacetime Pool” on Facebook (public access). It’s on the preliminary ballot for the Nebula Award – I’m definitely reading this one. Not breaking news by any means, but Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Beguilement” (first in the Shar...
Diplomatic Immunity (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
Original at http
• Mon, Jan 5
By csshun Other Products of Interest Memory (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)A Civil CampaignKomarr (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)Miles Errant (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)Cordelia’s Honor A Komarran merchant fleet is impounded at Graf Station following an incident. Waiting there are dip
Patricia Briggs and other reasons you wished you lived here
Original at http
• Sun, Jan 4
• 2 related articles
By Ciara Lois McMaster Bujold Lois McMaster Bujold, a multi-Hugo award winner and fantasy fan favorite, presents the fourth book in her popular Sharing Knife series. In the world of the soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers and ancient magic, Dag Hickory is deepening his understanding of his power. And...
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Fanfiction:
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Fri, Jan 2
Title: Firelight Fandom: Lois McMaster Bujold - Vorkosigan series Written for: TigerKat in the Yuletide 2008 Challenge By: Glishara Word Count: 1000 Comments: This one was mine. Aral/Cordelia, fluff These and 37 other Vorkosigan fics are all up at the Yuletide archive via this link.
Books for January
Original at http
• Thu, Jan 1
By bookdaze Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Horizon” (fantasy): The conclusion to her Sharing Knife series. It took me a while to get into this series, what with my obsession with Miles and the Vorkosigan universe, but after taking ages to get around to reading “Legacy” (book 2), I realised just because it...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance
Original at http
• Tue, Dec 16
By mervih This time the stakes are really high. Mirror Dance is significantly darker in tone than the previous books and it has a lot of character growth and interaction. I think of Mirror Dance as the book where the Vorkosigan –series rose to a new height in quality. The previous book, Brothers in Arms,...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Tue, Dec 16
By mervih This time the stakes are really high. Mirror Dance is significantly darker in tone than the previous books and it has a lot of character growth and interaction. I think of Mirror Dance as the book where the Vorkosigan –series rose to a new height in quality. The previous book, Brothers in Arms,...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Brothers in Arms
Original at http
• Wed, Nov 19
By mervih This time Admiral Miles Naismith of the Denadarii mercenaries/ Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar has ended up on Earth because his mercenary fleet needs repairs. Miles himself takes the opportunity to check in to the Barrayaran Embassy to give his report and receive his next orde...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Brothers in Arms
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Wed, Nov 19
By mervih This time Admiral Miles Naismith of the Denadarii mercenaries/ Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar has ended up on Earth because his mercenary fleet needs repairs. Miles himself takes the opportunity to check in to the Barrayaran Embassy to give his report and receive his next orde...
In the wake of the USA presidential election, Deep Genre is thinking about politics, class, and fantasy and science fiction.
Original at DeepGenre
• Fri, Nov 7
By Kate Elliott Lois McMaster Bujold, at her Denvention Guest of Honor speech, talks about science fiction and fantasy as “fantasies of political agency.” She remarks that “Even the world-building itself is often a political argument. And, oh boy, are the political aspects of the fiction ever valoriz...
November 2
Original at SCIFIPEDIA
• Sat, Nov 1
Back to November 1 Births 1913: Burt Lancaster is born (Actors) 1927: Steve Ditko is born (Comics) 1942: Stefanie Powers is born (Actors) 1949: Lois McMaster Bujold is born (Authors) 1971, about 6:30 PM: Ronny Johnson sees a UFO which leaves a glowing ring on the ground (Delphos Ring UFO c...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of Infinity
Original at http
• Sat, Oct 25
By mervih However, this is set only two years after “Cetaganda”. This means that at least some of the prisoners where already in the dome during the events of that book. Yet, the people of the Marilacan embassy didn’t seem bothered by having Cetaganda hold their soldiers in a POW camp.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Borders of Infinity
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Sat, Oct 25
By mervih However, this is set only two years after “Cetaganda”. This means that at least some of the prisoners where already in the dome during the events of that book. Yet, the people of the Marilacan embassy didn’t seem bothered by having Cetaganda hold their soldiers in a POW camp. The third of the no...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Labyrinth
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Wed, Oct 22
By mervih This is quite exciting story full of twists and excellent characters. Miles is in full gear in his Admiral Naismith cover and it’s very good to see more of Bel whom I like quite a lot. At the same time the story also sets the stage for Mirror Dance and gives us another recurring character.
Lois McMaster Bujold: Cetaganda
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Mon, Oct 20
By mervih This time Miles and his cousin Ivan Vorpatril have been sent as the official envoys to the funeral of the Dowager Empress of Cetaganda. Cetaganda is a galactic empire which spans several planets and it’s also near Barrayar in the galactic way of measuring things. They tried very hard to inva...
FIC: Only Biography
Original at Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Sat, Oct 18
Author: sahiya Fandoms: Doctor Who and the Vorkosiverse Pairing/Rating: G, gen (Ten and Cordelia) Word Count: 5500 Disclaimer: Not mine! Everything Doctor Who belongs to Russell T. Davies and the BBC. Everything Vorkosiverse belongs to Lois McMaster Bujold and Baen's Universe.
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Vor Game
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Sat, Oct 18
By mervih The second book in the internal chronological order of the Miles Vorkosigan –series. But it’s another very fast-paced adventure and full of quirky characters. This is my third read-through The second book in the internal chronological order of the Miles Vorkosigan –series. Miles has ju
Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Original at okalrel.org
• Tue, Oct 14
By Lynda(noreply@blogger.com) I didn't think I was going to like Paladin of Souls at first. I remember having the same reaction to The Curse of Chalion, because it wasn't a Vorkosigan tale, but found I enjoyed it greatly by the time all the characters and conflicts were established. In the case of Paladin of Souls, I found th...
New Arrivals- Rucker, Bujold, Card, & Moning
Original at SFFaudio
• Mon, Oct 13
By The Time Traveler Space Boy By Orson Scott Card; Read by Stefan Rudnicki 2 CDs -2 Hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Blackstone Audio Published: 2007 ISBN: 9781433207648 A Civil Campaign By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner 16 CDs - 19 Hours [UNABRIDGED] Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Lois McMaster Bujold: The Mountains of Mourning
Original at mervih (WordPress)
• Sun, Oct 5
By mervih This is the first novella in novella collection Borders of Infinity which is situated between the novels Warrior’s Apprentice and the Vor Game. In addition to this one, the collection includes also “Labyrinth”, “Borders of Infinity” and also a very short story that ties the three other s...
25% Off MultiFormat Ebooks at Fictionwise
Original at avidbookreader
• Tue, Sep 30
By Avid Reader There are some great titles. There are regency romances by Joan Wolf, Barbara Metzger and Allison Lane among others. If you enjoy historical romance, there is The Prince of Midnight by Laura Kinsale and Dream Fever by Katherine Sutcliffe or if you prefer sci-fi, there are David Webster’s*...
Book Review: Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Original at whatatragiccomedy (WordPress)
• Sun, Sep 21
By whatatragiccomedy Synopsis: “The start of the Vorkosigan Saga! It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. And Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force would be forced into a separate peace with her enemy, Lord Vorkosigan ….”
Fic: A Brother Is Born for Adversity
Original at Lois mcmaster Bujold Fanfic Community
• Thu, Sep 18
By tigerkat24 Disclaimer: The Vorkosigan saga and all its characters belong to Lois McMaster Bujold. I am but a humble student playing in her sandbox. I lay no claim to anything here except, perhaps, Ben's general character. ...
6) The Hallowed Hunt
Original at Fictionwise
• Thu, Sep 18
An acclaimed legend in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold returns to the vivid and perilous world of her previous masterworks, the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls and Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated The Curse of Chalion, with an epic tale of devot...
review Lois McMaster Bujold's Komarr
Original at Bookish
• Sun, Sep 14
By kentsplace In Komarr we continue to see Lois McMaster Bujold’s Miles Vorkosigan mature. We have covered about 12 years of Miles’ career. He has gone from being flunked out of Barrayar’s military academy to mercenary fleet admiral to Imperial ...
Lois McMaster Bujold: Paladin of Souls
Original at Fascination Place
• Sun, Aug 31
By Michael Rawdon Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster BujoldPB, Harper Collins/HarperTorch, © 2005, 482 pp, ISBN 0-380-81861-2 Paladin of Souls Paladin of Souls is the sequel to The Curse of Chalion, and also the winner of the 2004 Hugo Award for next novel.
Opinion: August 14, 2008: Author Lois McMaster Bujold Answers Your Questions
Original at josephmallozzi (WordPress)
• Thu, Aug 14
By josephmallozzi LMB: Young Miles. This is a Baen omnibus volume containing The Warrior’s Apprentice, the novella “The Mountains of Mourning”, and The Vor Game. They’re also available as e-books from www.fictionwise.com and as audio books from Blackstone.
Dreamwaver's Dilemma (1996)
Original at entropypump (WordPress)
• Mon, Aug 4
By Scotoma A neat collection of stories and essays by Lois McMaster Bujold that shows that she’s even good at the short form. There’s an excellent Sherlock Holmes pastiche, an excellent Miles Vorkosigan story and some other good pieces. There’s a unobtrusive, but warm humor in many of them, a kindnes...
Shards of Honor
Original at chainletters (WordPress)
• Wed, Jun 18
By chainletters This is the first book in the Vorkosigan Saga. The story begins with Commander Cordelia Naismith conducting a survey of a recently discovered planet. She, along with the rest of her Beta Colony team, are attacked by Barrayan forces, and her crew is forced to retreat and leave her behind. Knoc...
Lois McMaster Bujold on AISFP
Original at andyspackman (WordPress)
• Thu, May 15
By Andy This week's episode of Adventures in Scifi Publishing features a Q&A and reading from Lois McMaster Bujold, one of my favorite authors. Yes, there's going to be a new Miles book and eventually more Chalion books. She talks about her writing process, different structures for series,...
Podcast: Lois McMaster Bujold
Original at Fi Talk
• Sun, Aug 19
From a 1996 broadcast, Nebula and Hugo Award winner, Lois McMaster Bujold joined Ernest Lilley and I to discuss her latest Miles Vorkosigan adventure, Memory. The author gave Ernest and I some great insights into Miles and what could possibly lie ahead for him. Music is by the Brobdinagian...
SF Fans Take Over U-District
Original at Seattlest
• Fri, Jun 29
By Beth Quittman Lois McMaster Bujold is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author. Her fans filled the top floor of the University Bookstore to overflowing Wednesday night - and a dedicated cadre they are. Bujold was peppered with questions and her answers were sprinkled with so many in-jokes...