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Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

Author Biography & Works

Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a physically impaired interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in the future. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019.

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Books by Bujold, Lois Mcmaster

The Curse Of Chalion

The Curse Of Chalion

(World Of The Five Gods) Start here

Lois McMaster Bujold did not start off writing fantasy, instead rising to fame in the early 1990s as a prolific science-fiction novelist, winning numerous accolades such as the Hugo, Nebula,...

Paladin Of Souls

Paladin Of Souls

(World Of The Five Gods)

Paladin of Souls is the only book I know of featuring a middle-aged, retired queen on a pilgrimage, who is chalked up as mad—though personally I think she's just bored...

The Hallowed Hunt

The Hallowed Hunt

(World Of The Five Gods)

A magnificent epic tale of devotion, possession, obsession, and strange destiny from the author of the Hugo Award-winning Paladin of Souls Lois McMaster Bujold The half-mad Prince Boleso has been...

The Curse Of Chalion

The Curse Of Chalion

Lois McMaster Bujold is famous for her very atypical characters. She demonstrated this with her Miles Vorkosigan character, and she does the same thing with the Curse of Chalion. The...

Falling Free (1989)

Falling Free (1989)

(Vorkosigan Saga)

The quaddies are a generation of people engineered by the corporation GalacTech to work in zero gravity, with four arms and no legs, and they are treated as company property....

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