The Vorkosigan Companion

Author : Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618247063

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The Vorkosigan Companion by Lois McMaster Bujold Pdf

Master the Vorkosiverse! "I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to reacharacter-centered adventure. Readers return to such books because those characters have become their friends, and there is no limit to the number of times you want to be with your friends again." ¾Lois McMaster Bujold, from The Vorkosigan Companion. It's the companion for everything Miles and Vorkosigan: Insightful essays, encyclopedic entries on the characters, the plots and¾most of all¾the fantastic world-building! Plus, an extensive story-behind-the-story essay on the creation of the books, and a Bujold mini-biography! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Bujold mixes quirky humor with action [and] superb character development. [E]normously satisfying." ¾Publishers Weekly

Author : Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618249593

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Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold Pdf

Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, Ivan's chivalrous nature takes over. It seems danger and adventures have once more found Captain Vorpatril. Tej Arqua and her half-sister and servant Rish are fleeing the violent overthrow of their clan on free-for-all planet Jackson's Whole. Now it seems Tej may possess a hidden secret of which even she may not be aware. It's a secret that could corrupt the heart of a highly regarded Barayarran family and provide the final advantage for the thugs who seek to overthrow Tej's homeworld. But none of Tej's formidable adversaries have counted on Ivan Vorpatril. For behind Ivan's faade of wry and self effacing humor lies a true and cunning protector who will never leave a distressed lady in the lurch¾up to and including making the ultimate sacrifice to keep her from harm: the treasured and hardwon freedom from his own fate as a scion of Barrayar. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671578855

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A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold Pdf

Despite all his power, Lord Miles Vorkosigan can't win the hand of the beautiful Vor widow, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles has learned from his career in the galactic covert ops, subterfuge is always an option. So he devises a cunning plan.

Author : Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cryonics
ISBN : 1596068922

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The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold Pdf

Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique's experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets. This novella falls after Captain Vorpatril's Alliance in the Vorkosigan series timeline, but may be read entirely independently. The Vorkosigan saga was the recipient of the first Hugo Award for best science fiction series in 2017.

Author : Edward James
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252097379

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Lois McMaster Bujold by Edward James Pdf

Readers have awarded Lois McMaster Bujold four Hugo Awards for Best Novel, a number matched only by Robert Heinlein. Her Vorkosigan series redefined space opera with its emotional depth and explorations of themes such as bias against the disabled, economic exploitation, and the role of women in society. Acclaimed science fiction scholar Edward James traces Bujold's career, showing how Bujold emerged from fanzine culture to win devoted male and female readers despite working in genres--military SF, space opera--perceived as solely by and for males. Devoted to old-school ideas such as faith in humanity and the desire to probe and do good in the universe, Bujold simultaneously subverted genre conventions and experimented with forms that led her in bold creative directions. As James shows, her iconic hero Miles Vorkosigan--unimposing, physically impaired, self-conscious to a fault--embodied Bujold's thematic concerns. The sheer humanity of her characters, meanwhile, gained her a legion of fans eager to provide her with feedback, expand her vision through fan fiction, and follow her into fantasy.

Author : Barry Targan
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015050589517

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Falling Free by Barry Targan Pdf

Author : Genevieve Cogman,Steve Jackson
Publisher : Steve Jackson Games
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Games
ISBN : 1556345771

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Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga by Genevieve Cogman,Steve Jackson Pdf

Author : Harry Eiss
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443858625

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Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Harry Eiss Pdf

On Monday, 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. In the single largest act of destruction ever initiated by humans, a bomb with the equivalent force of 20,000 tons of TNT shattered Hiroshima, killing tens of thousands of civilians, people who had become used to the American war planes flying overhead, planes that were purposely not dropping bombs on their city, to the point where the rush to the bomb shelters had become lackadaisical, and the normal activities continued with little interruption – getting the children up and off to school, opening the many small retail stores for the daily customers, perhaps stopping at a local café for morning coffee or tea, perhaps joining in on the group exercise classes. This is the precise instant we entered the postmodern world, one where the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. Speculative Fiction projects real possibilities beyond the now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes – science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, supernatural fiction, superhero comics, graphic novels, and movies, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Cyber Punk, the New Wave, as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts, including everything from graphic novels to video games.

Author : Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher : Baen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476781117

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Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold Pdf

THIRD ENTRY IN A BELOVED SERIES. The Vorkosigan Saga spans over a dozen novels and has won multiple awards and sold 1.8 million copies. Sick of combat and betrayal, Cordelia Vorkosigan is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, her husband Aral becomes guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war. But neither Aral nor Cordelia can guess the part that their cell-damaged unborn will play in Barrayar's bloody legacy. Winner of the Hugo Award. About Lois McMaster Bujold: “. . . all the virtues we have come to expect from Bujold, including more and more prose that sings.”—The Chicago Sun Times “Bujold continues to prove what marvels genius can create out of basic space operatics.”—Library Journal “Bujold is not just a master of plot, she is a master of emotion.”—SF Site “Bujold is one of the best writers of SF adventure to come along in years.”—Locus Magazine The Vorkosigan Series in Story-based Chronological Order Falling Free Shards of Honor Barrayar The Warrior's Apprentice The Vor Game Cetaganda Ethan of Athos Borders of Infinity Brothers in Arms Mirror Dance Memory Komarr A Civil Campaign Diplomatic Immunity Captain Vorpatril's Alliance CryoBurn Omnibus Editions MILES, MYSTERY & MAYHEM contains Cetaganda, Ethan of Athos YOUNG MILES contains The Warrior's Apprentice + stories CORDELIA’S HONOR contains Shards of Honor, Barayarr MILES, MUTANTS & MICROBES contains Falling Free, Diplomatic Immunity MILES IN LOVE contains Komarr, A Civil Campaign MILES ERRANT contains Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance

Author : Regina Yung Lee,Una McCormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789621730

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Biology and Manners by Regina Yung Lee,Una McCormack Pdf

Thisvolume of essays continues the establishment of Lois McMaster Bujold as an importantauthor of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. It argues persuasively thatBujold's corpus spans the distance between two full arcs of US feminism, andhas anticipated or responded to several of its current concerns in ways thatinvite or even require theoretical exploration. The fourteen essays collected here provide wide-ranging scholarly analysesof Bujold's work and worlds so far, covering not only the science fiction and fantasyseries, but taking into account the wealth of ancillary material inspired byher works, such as fan fiction and role-playing games. Examining the majorseries through a range of perspectives, including feminist readings, queertheory, and disability studies, this volume aims to establish beyond doubt theseriousness of intent behind Bujold's various artistic projects and provide aset of rich readings of this engaging, experimental, playful, and popularauthor.

Author : Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher : Baen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671877445

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Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold Pdf

Attending a diplomatic ceremony on Cetaganda, Miles and Cousin Ivan get into a heap of political trouble when the late empress' lifelong attendant is murdered, and Ivan gets involved with several beautiful and well-connected aliens.

Author : Janet Brennan Croft,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786468331

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Lois McMaster Bujold by Janet Brennan Croft,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III Pdf

Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards--Hugos, Nebulas, and others--for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. She is one of the most respected names in the field, always delivering polished, thoughtful, and well-crafted writing. She consistently addresses great issues and problems on a human level, where they are faced by quirky, prickly, and very real characters, and her exploration of the theory of reader-response is an important critical contribution. Yet there has been a surprising dearth of serious critical writing about her output--in part because she resists neat and easy classification by genre, politics, or subject matter. This collection of fresh essays aims to correct that situation by presenting critical insights into many aspects of her writing. Attention is given to both her Miles Vorkosigan science fiction series and her Chalion and Sharing Knife fantasy series, as well as the books that fall outside these series.

Author : John Lennard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 9781847601735

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Of Sex and Faerie: further essays on Genre Fiction by John Lennard Pdf

Taking up where Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fi ction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the fi nal essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfi ction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations.

Author : Martin H. Greenberg,Kerrie L. Hughes
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101082164

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Gamer Fantastic by Martin H. Greenberg,Kerrie L. Hughes Pdf

Let the games begin! These thirteen original stories by veterans of the fantasy realms take role-playing games and universes to a whole new level. From a teenager who finds a better future in virtual reality; to a private investigator hired to find a dying man's grandson in the midst of a virtual reality theme park; from a person gifted with the power to pull things out of books into the real world; to a psychologist using fantasy role-playing to heal his patients; from a gaming convention where the real winners may not be who they seem to be; to a multi-layered role-playing game that leads participants from reality to reality and games within games-these imaginative and fascinating new tales will captivate both lovers of original fantasy and anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of role-playing games.

Author : Martin H. Greenberg,Kerrie L. Hughes
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101476581

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Love and Rockets by Martin H. Greenberg,Kerrie L. Hughes Pdf

Space...the final frontier. Or is it? Many say there's no frontier more forbidding than a romantic relationship between a man and a woman. But what if one's a human, and the other's an alien? Here is an original collection of space opera stories where authors take love (unrequited or not), on a spaceship, space station, or planetary colony, and add enough drama, confusion and mayhem to ensure that the path to true love-or short-term infatuation-is seldom free of obstacles.