Books by Lois McMaster Bujold
Born: 1949Lois McMaster Bujold Biography & Notes
Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.
Bujold is best known for her series of novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a severely-disabled interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in our future. The series demonstrates Bujold's mastery of various science fiction genres and sub-genres. Earlier titles are generally firmly in the space opera tradition with no shortage of battles, conspiracies, and wild twists, while in more recent volumes Miles becomes a detective. In A Civil Campaign, Bujold explores yet another genre: a high-society romance story with a plot centered on a catastrophic dinner party, with misunderstandings and dialogue justifying the subtitle A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Her psychological insights and creation of complex characters are particularly appreciated by many readers.
Bujold is a highly successful writer, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel 4 times, a record matched only by Robert Heinlein. She has also won the Nebula award for best novel, and her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both prizes. In the non-science fiction sphere, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
Bujold currently lives in Minnesota. She is divorced and has two children.
Bujold is best known for her series of novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a severely-disabled interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in our future. The series demonstrates Bujold's mastery of various science fiction genres and sub-genres. Earlier titles are generally firmly in the space opera tradition with no shortage of battles, conspiracies, and wild twists, while in more recent volumes Miles becomes a detective. In A Civil Campaign, Bujold explores yet another genre: a high-society romance story with a plot centered on a catastrophic dinner party, with misunderstandings and dialogue justifying the subtitle A Comedy of Biology and Manners. Her psychological insights and creation of complex characters are particularly appreciated by many readers.
Bujold is a highly successful writer, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel 4 times, a record matched only by Robert Heinlein. She has also won the Nebula award for best novel, and her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both prizes. In the non-science fiction sphere, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel.
Bujold currently lives in Minnesota. She is divorced and has two children.
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Barrayar Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2009)
When Cordelia Naismith's husband assumes rule of the land, the unborn child she carries takes on a important role in the preservation of peace, as the land breaks out in civil war. Winner of the 1992 Hugo Award.
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Beguilement Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2006)
Fleeing her family farm after becoming pregnant, unwed Fawn Bluefield encounters a patrol of enigmatic soldier-sorcerers under the leadership of Dag, a knife-bearing, one-handed patroller who comes to Fawn's rescue when she is kidnapped by a dangerous magical entity. 75,000 first printing.
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Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2007) |
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Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2006)
Miles and Cousin Ivan take a diplomatic journey to Cetaganda only to end up in the thick of a murder mystery.
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A Civil Campaign A Company of Biology and Manners by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1999)
In this Miles Vorkosigan sci-fi adventure, Miles and his friends and relatives employ one cunning plan too many as they seek to succeed in their romantic strategies.
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Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1996)
Sick of combat, Cordelia Naismith is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, Aral become guardian of the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar. Cordelia soon finds herself allied with Aral to keep the child safe from high-tech assassins engaged in a dynastic civil war fought with biowar technology.
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The Curse Of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2004)
Amidst the decaying splendor and poisonous intrigue of Chalion's ancient capital, Lord Cazaril is forced to confront not only powerful enemies but also the malignant curse that clings to the royal household, trapping him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death for as long as he dares walk the five-fold pathway of the gods.
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Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2002) A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is as assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. but it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous ... and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death. |
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Diplomatic Immunity A Vorkosioan Adventure by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2002)
When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded at Graf Station after a bloody incident involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort, Imperial Auditor Lord Miles Vorkosigan and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, are called in to untangle the diplomatic snafus, treachery, conflicting loyalties, and dark secrets before it is too late.
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Dreamweaver's Dilemma by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1997) |
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Ethan of Athos Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1994)
Dr. Ethan Urquhart, an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women, is Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center and one of the busiest men on the planet Athos. Then a mysterious genetic crisis threatens Athos with extinction. Drafted to brave the wider universe for his cloistered fellows in quest of new ovarian tissue cultures, Ethan braces himself for his first encounter with those most alien of aliens--females of his own species.
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Falling Free by Suford Lewis, Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2004)
In an effort to boost production, an unscrupulous administrator genetically engineers workers and plans to discard them once they outlive their usefulness. Winner of the 1988 Nebula Award.
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Free Lancers by Lois McMaster Bujold, David Drake, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Mitchell ( 1987)
Features three novellas by Orson Scott Card, David Drake, and Lois McMaster Bujold, including a tale of a man who leads the survivors of an anti-Mormon pogrom cross-country to Utah and a Paradise Port that leads to death.
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The Hallowed Hunt Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2006)
A man and a woman struggle with demons within and an uneasy political situation without in this work of high fantasy, set in the same milieu as the Hugo award-winning PALADIN OF SOULS and THE CURSE OF CHALION. The imminent death of the Hallow King has thrown the realm into turmoil, exacerbated by the death of his youngest son, Prince Bolesco. The prince was conducting a forbidden religious ritual when Lady Ijada, an unwilling participant in the brutal ceremony, killed him in self-defense. As a result of that ritual, Lady Ijada is possessed by a leopard-spirit. That's a condition understood fairly well by Lord Ingrey, the man chosen to conduct her and the prince's body for burial. Lord Ingrey himself shares his spirit with that of a wolf, forced upon him during a similar ritual. Unfortunately, he also seems to be harboring a spell cast by an unknown party, compelling him to make repeated attempts on Lady Ijada's life.
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Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2009)
The conclusion to the series that includes
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Horizon by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2009) |
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Legacy by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2008)
A conclusion to the tale that began with
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Memory A Miles Vorkosigan Novel by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1996)
Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the planet of Jackson's Whole, while rescuing his brother. Thanks to quick thinking on the part of his staff, and incredible artistry on the part of the specialist who revived him, his first death won't be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he's willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon Illyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, "Who shall guard the guardians?" becomes a more-than-rhetorical question, with a potentially lethal answer. Things look bad, but they are far worse than Miles imagines, as he discovers his worst nightmares about Simon Illyan don't compare to Illyan's worst nightmares - or are they memories?
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Miles Errant by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2002)
Miles Naismith--in the person of his two alter-egos Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan--embarks on a perilous series of adventures, from the liberation of Barrayaran allies from a Cetagandan POW camp to the rescue of clone children scheduled to be murdered for their bodies, in an omnibus volume containing "Borders of Infinity," Brothers in Arms, and Mirror Dance. Original.
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Miles in Love by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2008)
Physically handicapped but charismatic military genius Miles Vorkosigan returns in an omnibus containing
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Miles, Mutants and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2007)
When engineer Leo Graff discovers hundreds of helpless children called quaddies being exploited for corporate gain on Cay Habitat, he must teach them the meaning of freedom, in the Nebula-winning novel
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Miles, Mutants and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2008)
When engineer Leo Graff discovers helpless children called quaddies exploited for corporate gain on Cay Habitat, he must teach them the meaning of freedom, in the Nebula-winning novel
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Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2007)
Once again the Vorkosigan brothers struggle as Mark feels that he may have to kill his brother to truly flourish. Winner of the 1995 Hugo Award.
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Paladin De Almas/ Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2006) |
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Paladin Of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2005) Follow Lois McMaster Bujold, one of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, to a land threatened by treacherous war and beset by demons -- as a royal dowager, released from the curse of madness and manipulated by an untrustworthy god, is plunged into a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. |
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Passage by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2009)
Unable to overcome the bigotry of their own families in spite of the numerous hardships they have shared, Fawn and Dag set out to find alternative solutions to the perilous rift between their races, during which they acquire such motley companions as a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers, a magically beguiled farmer boy, and a young riverboat captain. Reprint.
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Shards of Honor A Yorkosigan Adventure Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2009) |
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The Sharing Knife Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2007) |
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The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2000)
Rebuffed by her magician-artist father, Fiametta Beneforte seeks solace in a partnership with Thur Ochs, a prisoner in her father's mines. Reprint.
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The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2005)
Sent to the other side of the galaxy when he angers the High Command on his home planet, mercenary leader Miles becomes the only hope for his betrayed childhood friend, Emperor Gregor, and will become emperor himself if he fails. Read by Grover Gardner.
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The Warrior Apprentice Library Edition by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2005) |
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Winterfair Gifts by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2008) |
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Women at War by ( 1995)
A unique anthology of science fiction stories featuring women in military roles includes the work of award-winner Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Campbell Award nominee Holy Lisle, Judith Tarr, Jane Yolen, and fourteen others.
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Young Miles by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 1997)
Washed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for being overly fragile, Miles Vorkosigan's natural--if unorthodox--leadership qualities quickly allow him to acquire a fleet of ships and 3,000 troops, all unswervingly loyal to him. In short order, he foils a plot against his father, returns to and graduates from the academy, solves a murder, thwarts an interstellar invasion, and rescues the Barrayaran Emperor.
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El anillo del espiritu/ The Spirit Ring by Lois McMaster Bujold ( 2007) |