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Lois McMaster Bujold is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. She has attributed her love for science fiction to her father. Robert Charles McMaster was a professor of Welding Engineering.

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Order of Vorkosigan Saga Series

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1 Aftermath (In the Cordelia's Honor Collection) (Short Story) 1986 Description / Buy
2 Shards of Honor 1986 Description / Buy
3 The Warrior's Apprentice 1986 Description / Buy
4 Ethan of Athos 1986 Description / Buy
5 Falling Free 1987 Description / Buy
6 Brothers in Arms 1989 Description / Buy
7 The Mountains of Mourning (Short Story) 1989 Description / Buy
8 Labyrinth 1989 Description / Buy
9 Borders of Infinity 1989 Description / Buy
10 Weatherman (Short Story) 1990 Description / Buy
11 The Vor Game 1990 Description / Buy
12 Barrayar 1991 Description / Buy
13 Mirror Dance 1994 Description / Buy
14 Cetaganda 1995 Description / Buy
15 Dreamweaver's Dilemma 1995 Description / Buy
16 Memory 1996 Description / Buy
17 Komarr 1998 Description / Buy
18 A Civil Campaign 1999 Description / Buy
19 Diplomatic Immunity 2002 Description / Buy
20 Winterfair Gifts (Short Story) 2002 Description / Buy
21 Cryoburn 2010 Description / Buy
22 Captain Vorpatril's Alliance 2012 Description / Buy
23 Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen 2016 Description / Buy
24 The Flowers of Vashnoi (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Vorkosigan Saga Series

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1 Dreamweaver's Dilemma 1995 Description / Buy
2 Falling Free 1987 Description / Buy
3 Shards of Honor 1986 Description / Buy
4 Aftermath (In the Cordelia's Honor Collection) (Short Story) 1986 Description / Buy
5 Barrayar 1991 Description / Buy
6 The Warrior's Apprentice 1986 Description / Buy
7 The Mountains of Mourning (Short Story) 1989 Description / Buy
8 Weatherman (Short Story) 1990 Description / Buy
9 The Vor Game 1990 Description / Buy
10 Cetaganda 1995 Description / Buy
11 Ethan of Athos 1986 Description / Buy
12 Borders of Infinity 1989 Description / Buy
13 Labyrinth 1989 Description / Buy
14 Brothers in Arms 1989 Description / Buy
15 Mirror Dance 1994 Description / Buy
16 Memory 1996 Description / Buy
17 Komarr 1998 Description / Buy
18 A Civil Campaign 1999 Description / Buy
19 Winterfair Gifts (Short Story) 2002 Description / Buy
20 Diplomatic Immunity 2002 Description / Buy
21 Captain Vorpatril's Alliance 2012 Description / Buy
22 The Flowers of Vashnoi (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
23 Cryoburn 2010 Description / Buy
24 Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen 2016 Description / Buy

Order of Vorkosigan Collections with John Helfers, Lillian Carl

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1 The Vorkosigan Companion ( With: John Helfers, Lillian Carl) 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Curse Of Chalion Series

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1 The Curse of Chalion 2000 Description / Buy
2 Paladin of Souls 2003 Description / Buy
3 The Hallowed Hunt 2005 Description / Buy

Order of The Sharing Knife Series

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1 Beguilement 2006 Description / Buy
2 Legacy 2007 Description / Buy
3 Passage 2008 Description / Buy
4 Horizon 2009 Description / Buy
5 Knife Children 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Penric and Desdemona Series

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1 Penric's Demon 2015 Description / Buy
2 Penric and the Shaman 2016 Description / Buy
3 Penric's Fox (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy
4 Masquerade in Lodi (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy
5 Penric\'s Mission 2017 Description / Buy
6 Mira's Last Dance (Short Story) 2017 Description / Buy
7 The Prisoner of Limnos 2017 Description / Buy
8 The Orphans of Raspay (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy
9 The Physicians of Vilnoc (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
10 The Assassins of Thasalon 2021 Description / Buy
11 Knot of Shadows (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy
12 Demon Daughter 2024 Description / Buy
13 Penric and the Bandit (Short Story) 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Penric and Desdemona Collections

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1 Penric's Labors 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Lois McMaster Bujold Standalone Novels

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1 The Spirit Ring 1992 Description / Buy

Order of Lois McMaster Bujold Non-Fiction Books

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1 Sidelines 2013 Description / Buy
2 The Gerould Family of New Hampshire in the Civil War 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Lois McMaster Bujold Collections

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1 Proto Zoa (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy

Lois McMaster Bujold Anthologies

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1 Free Lancers 1987 Description / Buy
2 Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, February 1988 1988 Description / Buy
3 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1990 1990 Description / Buy
4 The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3 1994 Description / Buy
5 Women at War 1995 Description / Buy
6 The Space Opera Renaissance 2006 Description / Buy
7 Federations 2009 Description / Buy
8 Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern 2014 Description / Buy
9 Women of Futures Past 2016 Description / Buy
10 Infinite Stars 2017 Description / Buy
11 Conversations From the Edge: The Galaxy's Edge Interviews 2021 Description / Buy
12 Unrivalled 2023 Description / Buy
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To pass the hours he spent on the plane as he flew from one consulting gig to another, Robert would buy science fiction magazines and novels. And once he was done with them, he would pass them on to Lois.

As such, even as a child, Lois did a lot more reading than her peers. Born in 1949, Lois started writing in Junior High, though most of her stories were imitations of works she loved.

Then she went to high school and attempted to produce more complex stories in collaboration with her best friend Lillian. But none of their efforts produced results. In college, the novelist considered taking English on as a Major, but she quickly found that the critical aspect of the course did not appeal to her.

Lois McMaster Bujold had a desire to create. But she did not know just how serious she was about publishing as a career. That might explain how she ended up in East Africa on a biology study tour and at The Ohio State University Hospitals from where she worked as a pharmacy technician.

When she finally quit her job to go start her family, Lois had no idea that she had taken her first step towards a career in publishing. She had more than enough time on her hands to experiment with her stories.

Though, writing did not come easy for her. She tried, as she had done in high school, to put a few ideas on paper but nothing stuck. It wasn’t until Lillian, her best friend from high school wrote and successfully published her own novels that Lois found the strength to give fiction writing a series shot.

With the help of her friends and family, the author produced a novelette as practice. Then she moved on to larger, more challenging works, finally delivering Shards of Honor, her very first novel in 1983.

Lois, who was already in her 30s when she started writing seriously, is best known for the Vorkosigan Series of books which follow the exploits of an interstellar spy. She has produced multiple novels following Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist, and the secondary characters he meets on his journey.

The novelist’s specialty is science fiction. She attempted to break into fantasy when she wrote The Spirit Ring. The book was a failure and it compelled Lois to return to the Vorkosigan books.

She found more success with The Curse of Chalion, her second fantasy novel which she wrote nearly a decade after The Spirit Ring.

Lois McMaster Bujold Awards

The author has received Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Minnesota Book Awards for novels like The Mountain of Mourning, Falling Tree, Barrayar, and Komarr, to mention but a few.

Best Lois McMaster Bujold Books

Lois garnered quite a bit of popularity for showing more support for the fanfiction written about her characters than most other authors in her field, with some of the best titles in her bibliography including:

The Mountains of Mourning: Miles has just graduated from the academy, and the newly minted officer of the Barrayan Empire is looking forward to his first mission. But first, he decides to journey home. The 20-year-old wants a moment to catch his breath before the next phase of his life begins.

He doesn’t expect his father to deploy him to an isolated village in the mountains. Neither is he prepared for the case of infanticide that awaits him. Miles must identify the murderer and then ensure that the old laws which encouraged the disposal of imperfect infants are put to rest.

The Vor Game: Miles V would like to think that he’s a good soldier. He has a handicap but that couldn’t keep him from successfully completing his time at the Military Academy. Miles knew that he had done enough to earn a decent assignment.

But his superiors disagreed. They thought he had a problem with authority. And as a reaction to his insubordination, they decided to assign him to a remote military base on an island.

But the soldier’s spirit wouldn’t be quenched. He was still determined to prove himself regardless of the challenges presented. He did not expect to wander into a plot constituting a young emperor that was all too eager to escape his duties.

When Does The Next Lois McMaster Bujold book come out?

Lois McMaster Bujold doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Penric and the Bandit and was released on June, 30th 2024. It is the newest book in the Penric and Desdemona Series.

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