Lois McMaster Bujold

Bujold is best known for her series of novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, an 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 3 times, a record topped 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.

Major Writings

The Miles Vorkosigan Series

Listed in series order:

• Falling Free [set approximately 200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan] (1988) -- Nebula Award
• Shards of Honor [set approximately 5 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan] (1986)
• Barrayar (1991) -- Hugo Award
• The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
• The Mountains of Mourning (1989) (included in Borders of Infinity) -- Hugo Award, Nebula Award. Available online via the Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library/)
• The Vor Game (1990) -- Hugo Award
• Cetaganda (1995)
• Ethan of Athos [Miles Vorkosigan is referred to, but does not actually appear, in this novel] (1986)
• Borders of Infinity (1989)
• Brothers in Arms (1989)
• Mirror Dance (1994) -- Hugo Award
• Memory (1996)
• Komarr (1998)
• A Civil Campaign (2000)
• Diplomatic Immunity (2002)

Fantasy Novels

• The Spirit Ring (1993)
• The Curse of Chalion (2001)