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Falling Free [An independent Vorkosigan Novel]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[An independent novel in the Vorkosigan universe.] In an attempt to corner the market on labor contracts across the galaxy, the medical research corporation GalacTech bio-engineers a thousand human embryos into a new race of humans perfectly suited to a weightless environment. In addition to many carefully engineered internal adjustments for a life without gravity, the Quaddies' most visible improvement is the substitution of legs for an additional pair of arms. Expert space welder and engineer ... more info>> (Published: 1988) Prometheus Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 81014 - Reading Time: 231-324 min.
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Shards of Honor [Vorkosigan Series Book 1]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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First novel in the popular series that begins with the inauspicious meeting of Betan astrocartographer Cordelia Naismith and Barrayaran Captain Aral Vorkosigan during a treacherous war. As captor and prisoner on an abandoned outpost planet, the honorable captain and the resolute scientist must rely on each others' trust to survive a trek across dangerous terrain, thus sparking a relationship that shares the struggles of culture and politics between their worlds. (Published: 1986) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 78689 - Reading Time: 224-314 min.
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Barrayar [Vorkosigan Series Book 2]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Second novel in the popular SF Vorkosigan series. Cordelia Naismith has deserted her home planet and a career in astrocartography for her husband Aral Vorkosigan, who has just been appointed Regent of Barrayar by the dying Emperor. As Lord and Lady Vorkosigan, they struggle to establish stability in a fragile government thrown into confusion by the transition of power. When a palace coup endangers the government, their lives, and her unborn son, Cordelia takes action to secure the safety of her ... more info>> (Published: 1991) Locus Poll Award Winner, Hugo Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
Words: 104037 - Reading Time: 297-416 min.
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The Warrior's Apprentice [Vorkosigan Series Book 4]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Miles Naismith Vorkosigan comes of age. After failing the Barrayaran Military Academy physicals, the brittle-boned, dwarfish son of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan uses a clever touch of creativity to finance a shipment of munitions into a war zone. When the simple merchant expedition draws the attention of an unexpected enemy, Miles is forced to masquerade as commander of a fictional fleet of hired guns he names after the mountains near his home--the Dendarii Mercenaries. His original crew of misf... more info>> (Published: 1986) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 99705 - Reading Time: 284-398 min.
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The Vor Game [Vorkosigan Series Book 5]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[Sequel to "The Warrior's Apprentice"] Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military... more info>> (Published: 1990) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner, HOMer Award Nominee, SF Chronicle Poll Nominee, Seiun Award Nominee, Fictionwise eBook of the Year (2002)
Words: 98365 - Reading Time: 281-393 min.
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The Mountains of Mourning [Vorkosigan Series Book 4]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility. [Publisher's Note: The Mountains of Mourning was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the May 1989 issue of Analog. It was then included as the first of three novellas that make up the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short "framing story" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each one... more info>> (Published: 1989) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner, SF Chronicle Poll Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 28714 - Reading Time: 82-114 min.
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Labyrinth [Vorkosigan Series Book 8]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Twenty-three year old Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan challenges the criminal underground on the planet Jackson's Whole to rescue a research scientist. [Publisher's Note: Labyrinth was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the August 1989 issue of Analog. It was then included in the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short "framing story" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering... more info>> (Published: 1989) Analog Reader's Choice Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 30702 - Reading Time: 87-122 min.
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The Borders of Infinity [Vorkosigan Series Book 9]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Miles infiltrates a prison camp at Dagoola IV, where he plots from within to free the prisoners. [Publisher's Note: The Borders of Infinity was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the anthology Free Lancers in September 1987. It was then included in the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms. Bujold added a short "framing story" that tied the three novellas together by setting up each as a flashback that Miles experiences while recovering from bone-replacement s... more info>> (Published: 1987) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 26923 - Reading Time: 76-107 min.
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Ethan of Athos [Vorkosigan Series Book 7]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[An independent novel in the Vorkosigan universe.] Dr. Ethan Urquhart is Chief of Biology at a District Reproduction Center. He delivers babies from uterine replicators. You see, on Athos there are no women. In fact, the planet is forbidden to them. Isolated from the galactic community by distance and a lack of exploitable resources, the Athosians have peacefully lived their peculiar social experiment for 200 years. But now the ovarian cultures dating back to the original settlement of the plane... more info>> (Published: 1986)
Words: 62349 - Reading Time: 178-249 min.
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Brothers in Arms [Vorkosigan Series Book 10]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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The daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp by the Dendarii Mercenaries made for some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan) and the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle shuttle repair and a well deserved rest. When the Mercenaries' payroll doesn't arrive on time and someone tries to kill Miles, he realizes he's in trouble again. Miles must juggle both his identities at once to unravel the complicated plo... more info>> (Published: 1989)
Words: 90575 - Reading Time: 258-362 min.
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Cetaganda [Vorkosigan Series Book 6]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Cetaganda is another installment in the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally--apparently a suicide, but there are rumors--Miles and Ivan find themselves in the thick of it. Miles tr... more info>> (Published: 1996) Seiun Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 85082 - Reading Time: 243-340 min.
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Memory [Vorkosigan Series Book 12]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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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, h... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 135056 - Reading Time: 385-540 min.
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Winterfair Gifts [Vorkosigan Series Book 15]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan's long-awaited wedding is the occasion for romance and intrigue for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee, Fictionwise eBook of the Year (2005), Romance Readers Anonymous Listserv Award Winner
Words: 23091 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
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