Lois McMaster Bujold Books In Order

Vorkosigan Saga Books In Publication Order

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

Vorkosigan Saga Books In Chronological Order

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

Vorkosigan Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

Curse Of Chalion Books In Publication Order

  1. The Curse of Chalion (2000)
  2. Paladin of Souls (2003)
  3. The Hallowed Hunt (2005)

The Sharing Knife Books In Publication Order

  1. Beguilement (2006)
  2. Legacy (2007)
  3. Passage (2008)
  4. Horizon (2009)
  5. Knife Children (2019)

Penric and Desdemona Books In Publication Order

  1. Penric’s Demon (2015)
  2. Penric and the Shaman (2016)
  3. Penric’s Fox (2016)
  4. Masquerade in Lodi (2016)
  5. Penric\’s Mission (2017)
  6. Mira’s Last Dance (2017)
  7. The Prisoner of Limnos (2017)
  8. The Orphans of Raspay (2019)
  9. The Physicians of Vilnoc (2020)
  10. The Assassins of Thasalon (2021)
  11. Knot of Shadows (2021)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Spirit Ring (1992)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Sidelines (2013)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Proto Zoa (2011)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The New Hugo Winners, Vol. 3 (1994)
  2. Women at War (1995)
  3. The Space Opera Renaissance (2006)
  4. Federations (2009)
  5. Women of Futures Past (2016)

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Lois McMaster Bujold Books Overview

Aftermath (In the Cordelia’s Honor Collection)

In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan he who was called ‘The Butcher of Komarr’ and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral suddenly became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar and the target of high tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of earth’s Middle Ages, but fought with up to the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell damaged unborn son would play in Barrayar’s bloody legacy. This edition includes an author’s afterword, and a chronology of the events in the Vorkosigan Saga series. Cover art by Gary Ruddell. Publisher’s note: Cordelia’s Honor is comprised of two parts: Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Together they form a continuous story following the life of Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith from the day she met her then enemy Lord Aral Vorkosigan through the boyhood of her son Miles. Barrayar won the 1992 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year, and also the 1992 Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel. It was also nominated for the 1991 Nebula Award. Shards of Honor placed 2nd in the 1987 Locus Poll Award for best first novel, and was nominated for the 1987 Compton Crook Award. Cordelia’s Honor was published by Baen in trade paperback and in mass market paperback. This Science Fiction Book Club edition is its first general hardcover edition.

Shards of Honor

Commander Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony and Captain Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar suddenly find themselves at war with each other, abandoned by their respective forces on an uncharted planet and dependent on each other for their very survival. Trapped in an endless war without victory or glory and only one thing worth fighting for…
Shards of Honor.

The Warrior’s Apprentice

Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior father’s legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges. Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic ‘forward momentum,’ the ever inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous warzone.

Ethan of Athos

Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200 year old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics and the only person who’s around to rescue him is the inimitable and, disturbingly, female Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent a spy.

Falling Free

When humanoids are genetically produced for capital gain, what are their human rights?

Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what’s wrong, and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was to teach welding to a secretly produced batch of humanoid workers genetically engineered with two additional arms instead of legs to be ideally suited to working in free fall. Could he just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless megacorporation? Leo hadn’t anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe nor in the rules.

Leo adopted a thousand quaddies. Now all he had to do was teach them to be free.

Falling Free is the 1988 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel

Brothers in Arms

If his enemies would just leave him alone, Miles Vorkosigan alias Admiral Naismith decided bitterly, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet would collapse all on its own. But his enemies were plotting a more deadly fall. For some unexplained reason the Dendarii payroll is missing and the orders from the Barrayaran Imperial Command are being delayed by Miles’s superior, Captain Galeni. What connects the impeccable insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates on Earth anyway? But the most deadly question of all before Miles is more personal: are Miles s two identities, Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan of Barrayar, splitting apart along the lines of his divided loyalties? And who is trying to assassinate which version of him? When Miles unravels the answers, then the complications really begin.

Borders of Infinity

Lois McMaster Bujold offers three more tales in the Hugo and Nebula award winning Vorkosigan Saga, called ”space opera at its best” by Publishers Weekly. The popular adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, a clever and outlandish science fiction hero for the modern era, continue in these three tales. In The Mountains of Mourning, Miles is dispatched to a back country region of Barrayar, where he must act as detective, judge, and executioner in a controversial murder case. In Labyrinth, Miles adopts his alternate persona as Dendarii Mercenary Admiral Naismith for an undercover mission to rescue an important research geneticist from Jackson’s Whole. And in the title story, Borders of Infinity, Miles infiltrates an escape proof Cetagandan POW camp and plays hero to the most deeply distressed damsel of his colorful career.

The Vor Game

Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to an arctic training camp. There he narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger happy base commander and mutinous recruits. Reassigned to investigate a suspicious military buildup near a wormhole nexus, he revives his undercover persona as mercenary Admiral Miles Naismith to negotiate between competing powers for control of the wormhole, to rescue the Emperor of Barrayar, and to watch his back for the arctic base commander seeking bloody vengeance.

Barrayar

Following her marriage to the notorious ‘Butcher of Komarr’, Lord Aral Vorkosigan, Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast on her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she is ready to settle down to a quiet life on Barrayar, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. At least, that was the plan With the death of the emperor, Aral has become Regent for the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar, thus making him and his family a target for traitors and malcontents. It takes but one lapse in the constant, deadly game of palace intrigue for things to go terribly wrong. An assassination attempt on the young emperor fails but the poison gas used does find a victim: the pregnant Cordelia. The Lady Vorkosigan herself is unharmed, but the gas seriously affects the growth and development of their unborn child, Miles. Irreparable cell damage means that the heir to House Vorkosigan is born with bones that are, and will always be, unnaturally brittle, and he will never stand taller than his mother’s shoulder. But what he lacks in strength, the young Miles more than makes up for in spirit. Neither Aral nor Cordelia could possibly guess the part their fragile son is destined to play in the future of the empire

Mirror Dance

Winner of the Hugo Award for Science Fiction The dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson’s Whole, things start to get really messy. The mission goes awry, Miles’s rescue attempt goes even more wrong, and Miles ends up killed and placed in cryogenic suspension for future resuscitation. Then, as if that weren’t bad enough, the cryo container is lost! Now it is up to the confused, disturbed Mark to either take Miles’s place as heir of the Vorkosigan line or redeem himself by finding and saving Miles.

Cetaganda

When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arrival, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. When the same servant turns up dead the next day, Miles and Ivan find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture, while lascivious Ivan manages to get himself involved with several noble females at the same time, a diplomatic no no of the first order. As the plot thickens, it becomes clear that it’s up to Miles to save the empire. With her usual skill, Bujold addresses timeless issues of human identity through the personal dramas of her characters.

Dreamweaver’s Dilemma

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates us, who we love, what angers us, what moves us, what bores us all of this defines us, gives us character, constitutes who we are. In True to Our Feelings, Solomon illuminates the rich life of the emotions why we don’t really understand them, what they really are, and how they make us human and give meaning to life. Emotions have recently become a highly fashionable area of research in the sciences, with brain imaging uncovering valuable clues as to how we experience our feelings. But while Solomon provides a guide to this cutting edge research, as well as to what others philosophers and psychologists have said on the subject, he also emphasizes the personal and ethical character of our emotions. He shows that emotions are not something that happen to us, nor are they irrational in the literal sense rather, they are judgements we make about the world, and they are strategies for living in it. Fear, anger, love, guilt, jealousy, compassion they are all essential to our values, to living happily, healthily, and well. Solomon highlights some of the dramatic ways that emotions fit into our ethics and our sense of the good life, how we can make our emotional lives more coherent with our values and be more ‘true to our feelings’ and cultivate emotional integrity. The story of our lives is the story of our passions. We fall in love, we are gripped by scientific curiosity and religious fervor, we fear death and grieve for others, we humble ourselves in envy, jealousy, and resentment. In this remarkable book, Robert Solomon shares his fascination with the emotions and illuminates our passions in an exciting new way.

Memory

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, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he’s willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon Illyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, ‘Who shall guard the guardians?’ becomes a more than rhetorical question, with a potentially lethal answer. Things look bad, but they are far worse than Miles imagines, as he discovers his worst nightmares about Simon Illyan don’t compare to Illyan’s worst nightmares or are they memories?

Komarr

Accident or Treachery? Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years work. or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest Imperial Auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why. The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. In the political and physical claustrophobia of the domed cities, are the Komarrans surrounding Miles loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels bidding for revenge? Lies within lies, treachery within treachery Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.

A Civil Campaign

One cunning plan too many? It’s spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love…
money…
bio genetics…
love…
lack of money…
incompatible planetary sexual mores…
love…
District succession scandals…
the Emperor’s wedding…
and, of course, love…
Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can’t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won’t do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan…
Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can’t solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might. He has a cunning plan…
‘It’s another winner with all kinds of unexpected adventures…
Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and style! A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan inspired novel…
Boy, can she write!’ Anne McCaffrey.

Diplomatic Immunity

This is a comedy of terrors…
A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy’s Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar’s Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor’s youngest Imperial Auditor a special high level troubleshooter has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.

Winterfair Gifts

This Hugo nominated novella adds a delightful extra chapter to Bujolds acclaimed Vorkosigan series, describing the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and the events leading up to it.

Cryoburn

Miles Vorkosigan is back! Kibou daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou daini cryocorp an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all too mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles to check it out. On Kibou daini, Miles discovers generational conflict over money and resources is heating up, even as refugees displaced in time skew the meaning of generation past repair. Here he finds a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret, a Snow White trapped in an icy coffin who burns to re write her own tale, and a mysterious crone who is the very embodiment of the warning Don t mess with the secretary. Bribery, corruption, conspiracy, kidnapping something is rotten on Kibou daini, and it isn t due to power outages in the Cryocombs. And Miles is in the middle of trouble! Fresh, intriguing, and, as always with Lois McMaster Bujold, superb. Robert Jordan It is such a delight to read something by such a good writer, who now seems to be writing at the height of her powers…
. I really have seldom enjoyed a book so much…
I couldn t turn the pages fast enough. Diana Wynne Jones Living breathing characters who inhabit unusual yet believable worlds. Jean Auel Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development…
enormously satisfying. Publishers Weekly One of sf s outstanding talents…
an outstanding series. Booklist Excellently done…
Bujold has always excelled at creating forceful characters and she does it here again. Denver Post…
an intelligent, well crafted and thoroughly satisfying blend of adventure, sociopolitical commentary, scientific experiments, and occasional perils…
with that extra spicing of romance…
. Locus

The Vorkosigan Companion

Lois McMaster Bujold’s best selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award. And the thousands of devotees of the series now have a book that will be a goldmine of information, background details, and little known facts about the Vorkosigan saga. Included are an all new interview with Bujold as well as essays by her on crafting the Vorkosigan universe, articles on the biology, technology and sociology of the planet Barrayar, appreciations of the individual novels by experts, maps, a complete timeline of the series, and more. Readers can t get enough of the Vorkosigan series and they ll jump at the chance to read this story behind the stories. Baen has a new novel in the Vorkosigan series under contract.

The Curse of Chalion

In a dazzling display of invention and storytelling, the incomparable Lois McMaster Bujold offers us the razor keen edge of a very different sword…
The Curse of ChalionOn the eve of the Daughter’s Day the grand celebration that will honor the Lady of Spring, one of the five reigning deities a man broken in body and spirit makes his way slowly down the road to Valenda. A former courtier and soldier, Cazaril has survived indignity and horrific torture as a slave aboard an enemy galley. Now he seeks nothing more than a menial job in the kitchens of the Dowager Provincara, in the noble household where he served as page in his youth. But the gods have greater plans for this humbled man. Welcomed warmly, clothed and fed, he is named, to his great surprise, secretary tutor to the Royesse Iselle the beautiful, strong willed sister of the impetuous boy who is destined to be the next ruler of the land. But the assignment must ultimately carry Cazaril to the one place he fears even more than the sea: to the royal court of Cardegoss, rife with intrigues and lethal treacheries. In Cardegoss, the powerful enemies who once placed Cozoril in chains and bound him to a Roknori oar now occupy the most lofty positions in the realm, beneath only the Roya himself. Yet something for more sinister than their scheming hangs like a sword over the royal family: a curse of the blood that taints not only those who would rule, but those who stand in their circle. The life and future of both Iselle and her entire blighted House of Cholion lie in dire peril. The only recourse left to her loyal, damaged servant is the employment of the darkest and most forbidden of magics a choice that Will indelibly mark Cazaril as a tool of the miraculous…
and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death for as long as he dares walk the five fold pathway of the gods. Only Robert A. Heinlein has won more Hugo Awards for Best Novel than Lois McMaster Bujold, a singularly lauded author whose work has been compared to Jane Austen’s. Now channeling her remarkable storytelling genius in an exciting new direction, she creates a riveting tale rich in atmosphere, magic, character, and consequence that twists and turns in unanticipated ways. Much more than simply the next eagerly awaited tour de force by Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion is a stunning masterwork of fantastic invention that demonstrates the vast range of her astonishing tolents and elevates her into the pantheon of premier contemporary fantasists.

Paladin of Souls

One of the most honored authors in the field of fantasy and science fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold transports us once more to a dark and troubled land and embroils us in a desperate struggle to preserve the endangered souls of a realm. Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family’s castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road escape beckons…
. A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of all Chalion. Yet something else is free, too something beyond deadly. To the north lies the vital border fortress of Porifors. Memories linger there as well, of wars and invasions and the mighty Golden General of Jokona. And someone, something, watches from across that border humans, demons, gods. Ista thinks her little party of pilgrims wanders at will. But whose? When Ista’s retinue is unexpectedly set upon not long into its travels, a mysterious ally appears a warrior nobleman who fights like a berserker. The temporary safety of her enigmatic champion’s castle cannot ease Ista’s mounting dread, however, when she finds his dark secrets are entangled with hers in a net of the gods’ own weaving. In her dreams the threads are already drawing her to unforeseen chances, fateful meetings, fearsome choices. What the inscrutable gods commanded of her in the past brought her land to the brink of devastation. Now, once again, they have chosen Ista as their instrument. And again, for good or for ill, she must comply.

The Hallowed Hunt

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 slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile and Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff must transport the body to its burial place and the accused killer, the Lady Ijada, to judgment. With the death of the old Hallow King imminent and the crown in play, the road they must travel together is a dangerous one. And though he is duty bound to deliver his prisoner to an almost certain death, Ijada may be the only one Ingrey dares trust. For a monstrous malevolence holds the haunted lord in its sway and a great and terrible destiny has been bestowed upon him by the gods, the damned, and the dead.

Beguilement

Young Fawn Bluefield has fled her family’s farm hop ing to find work in the city of Glassforge. Uncertain about her future and the troubles she carries, Fawn stops for a drink of water at a roadside inn, where she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, enigmatic soldier sorcerers from the woodland culture to the north. Fawn knows the stories about the Lake walkers: they are necromancers; they practice black sorcery; they have no permanent homes and own only the clothes they wear and the weapons mysterious knives made of human bone they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers, as a whole, are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as & 147;malices,& 148; creatures that suck the life out of all they encounter, and turn men and animals into their minions.

Dag is an older Lakewalker patroller who carries his past sorrows as heavily as his present respon sibilities. When Fawn is kidnapped by the malice Dag’s patrol is tracking, Dag races to rescue her. But in the ensuing struggle, it is not Dag but Fawn who kills the creature at dire cost and an uncanny accident befalls Dag’s sharing knife, which unex pectedly binds their two fates together.

And so now the misenchanted knife must be returned to the Lakewalkers. Together, Fawn and Dag set out on the long road back to his camp. But on the journey this unlikely pair will encounter danger and delight, prejudice and partnership, and maybe even love…
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Legacy

Young Fawn Bluefield has fled her family’s farm hop ing to find work in the city of Glassforge. Uncertain about her future and the troubles she carries, Fawn stops for a drink of water at a roadside inn, where she encounters a patrol of Lakewalkers, enigmatic soldier sorcerers from the woodland culture to the north. Fawn knows the stories about the Lake walkers: they are necromancers; they practice black sorcery; they have no permanent homes and own only the clothes they wear and the weapons mysterious knives made of human bone they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers, as a whole, are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as & 147;malices,& 148; creatures that suck the life out of all they encounter, and turn men and animals into their minions.

Dag is an older Lakewalker patroller who carries his past sorrows as heavily as his present respon sibilities. When Fawn is kidnapped by the malice Dag’s patrol is tracking, Dag races to rescue her. But in the ensuing struggle, it is not Dag but Fawn who kills the creature at dire cost and an uncanny accident befalls Dag’s sharing knife, which unex pectedly binds their two fates together.

And so now the misenchanted knife must be returned to the Lakewalkers. Together, Fawn and Dag set out on the long road back to his camp. But on the journey this unlikely pair will encounter danger and delight, prejudice and partnership, and maybe even love…
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Passage

Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy writer Lois McMaster Bujold five time winner of the Hugo Award brings us the third installment in her New York Times bestselling romantic fantasy

The Sharing Knife, Volume Three: Passage

Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples.

But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, starting with Fawn’s irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn’s once did. Planning to seek Passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag and Fawn find themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father and fianc , who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year earlier. They travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, and inadvertently pick up more followers: a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers running away from an honest mistake with catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery.

As the ill assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and uncanny.

Horizon

In a world where malices remnants of ancient magic can erupt with life destroying power, only soldier sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets and themselves from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the perilous split between their peoples.

As Dag’s maker abilities have grown, so has his concern about who or what he is becoming. At the end of a great river journey, Dag is offered an apprenticeship to a master groundsetter in a southern Lakewalker camp. But as his understanding of his powers deepens, so does his frustration with the camp’s rigid mores with respect to farmers. At last, he and Fawn decide to travel a very different road and find that along it, their disparate but hopeful company increases.

Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing, and the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold every malice at bay forever. Yet for all the customs that the couple has challenged thus far, they will soon be confronted by a crisis exceeding their worst imaginings, one that threatens their Lakewalker and farmer followers alike. Now the pair must answer in earnest the question they’ve grappled with since they killed their first malice together: When the old traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways stand against their world’s deadliest foe?

The Spirit Ring

Fiametta Beneforte dreamed of making beautiful and enchanted objets d’art, but alas her magician goldsmith father was more likely to have her scrub the kiln than study magic. After all, it was a waste to train a mere daughter beyond the needs of the moment. Thur Ochs dreamed of escaping the icy mines of Bruinwald. But the letter from his brother Uri arranging his apprenticeship to Master Beneforte was not the only force that drew him over the mountains to the Duchy of Montefoglia…
A betrayal at a banquet plunges Thur and Fiametta into a struggle against men who would use vile magic for vile ends. Needs of this desperate moment will require all their wits, all their talents, and all their courage, if they are to rescue both Montefoglia and the souls of those they most love.

Proto Zoa

Fiametta Beneforte dreamed of making beautiful and enchanted objets d’art, but alas her magician goldsmith father was more likely to have her scrub the kiln than study magic. After all, it was a waste to train a mere daughter beyond the needs of the moment. Thur Ochs dreamed of escaping the icy mines of Bruinwald. But the letter from his brother Uri arranging his apprenticeship to Master Beneforte was not the only force that drew him over the mountains to the Duchy of Montefoglia…
A betrayal at a banquet plunges Thur and Fiametta into a struggle against men who would use vile magic for vile ends. Needs of this desperate moment will require all their wits, all their talents, and all their courage, if they are to rescue both Montefoglia and the souls of those they most love.

Women at War

A collection of original military science fiction stories written by women ranges from the horrors of contemporary Bosnia, to high tech peacekeepers in the distant future, to female mercenaries seeking war. LJ. ‘

The Space Opera Renaissance

‘Space opera’, once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the ‘new space opera’ is one of the defining streams of modern SF. Now, World Fantasy Award winning anthologists David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer have compiled a definitive overview of this subgenre, both as it was in the days of the pulp magazines, and as it has become in 2005. Included are major works from genre progenitors like Jack Williamson and Leigh Brackett, stylish midcentury voices like Cordwainer Smith and Samuel R. Delany, popular favorites like David Drake, Lois McMaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and modern day pioneers such as Iain M. Banks, Steven Baxter, Scott Westerfeld, and Charles Stross.

Federations

Edited by John Joseph Adams, editor of Wastelands and The Living Dead. From Star Trek to Star Wars, from Dune to Foundation, science fiction has a rich history of exploring the idea of vast intergalactic societies, and the challenges facing those living in or trying to manage such societies. The stories in Federations will continue that tradition, and herein you will find a mix of all new, original fiction, alongside selected reprints from authors whose work exemplifies what interstellar SF is capable of, including Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Alastair Reynolds, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg and Harry Turtledove. Additional authors: Alan Dean Foster, Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, John C. Wright, Allen Steele, James Alan Gardner, Catherynne M. Valente

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