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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 fantasy sphere, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and her fourth Hugo for a novel was for "Paladin of Souls".

Bujold currently lives in Minnesota. She is divorced and has two children.

1 Major Writings

1.1 The Vorkosigan SagaThe Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science-fiction novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, most of which concern Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled aristocrat from the planet Barrayar who creates his own private army at the age of just seventeen.

Listed in series order:

• Falling Free [set approximately 200 years before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan] (1988) -- Nebula Award
• Shards of Honor [set approximately 1 year 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
• The Vor Game (1990) -- Hugo Award
• Cetaganda (1995)
• Ethan of AthosEthan of Athos is a science fiction novel which is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold. It tells the story of Dr. Ethan Urquhart Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Centre on the planet of Athos, and his quest to Kline St [Miles Vorkosigan is referred to, but does not actually appear, in this novel] (1986)
• Labyrinth (1989) (included in Borders of Infinity)
• Borders of Infinity (1989)
• Brothers in ArmsBrothers in Arms can refer to: a 1985 album called Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. a 1991 album called Brothers in Arms by Joan Baez. a 1999 television movie sequel to the film Universal Soldier''. a novel called Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold (1989)
• Mirror Dance (1994) -- Hugo Award
• Memory (1996)
• Komarr (1998)
• A Civil Campaign (2000)
• Winterfair Gifts (2003 in Croatian and Russian, 2004 in English)
• Diplomatic Immunity (2002)