Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Ethan Of Athos

*You'd think that an obstetrician on a planet forbidden to women would be underemployed...* Not so; Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Center, is one...

Falling Free

As we have seen, in works such as Man Plus and The Ship Who Sang, body modification is often associated with making people fit to work in particular, usually hazardous,...

Brothers In Arms

Miles must juggle both his identities and find out just who is trying to assassinate which of his personas and why.

Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold really does make up for a huge mass of sins that the science-fiction writing industry commits in the form of sexism. Oh, wait... women are meant to...

Mirror Dance

Mark Vorkosigan hijacks a ship of the Dendarii Mercenaries and flies to the outlaw planet, Jackson's Whole, to destroy the clone creches where he was raised. The mission goes wrong...

Cetaganda

The hero, Miles Vorkosigan, is sent to represent his planet at the funeral of the empress of the planet Cetaganda. While there he becomes involved in a power struggle for...

Memory

A disgraced space hero gets a second chance. Miles Vorkosigan lied about the state of his health and is dismissed from service by his superior. But when his superior falls...

Komarr

Agent Miles Vorkosigan investigates terrorism and financial speculation on the planet Komarr. The story is told through the eyes of Ekaterin, the unhappily married wife of a government official with...

A Civil Campaign

Miles Vorkosigan launches a campaign to win the heart of Ekatarina, whose former husband died as a result of Miles' investigations in the book *Komarr*, by the same author. As...

Miles Vorkosigan Saga

There's a time for everything. There's a time to read heavy novels filled with grand ideas and space, the universe, and the destiny of mankind through Hard Science Fiction. There's...

The Mountains Of Mourning

Miles Vorkosigan, the scion of the clan, is sent to a society that puts a price on physical perfection. A baby in the society has been murdered, one with physical...

Young Miles

Omnibus reprint of _Warrior's Apprentice_, _The Mountains of Morning_, and _The Vor Game_.

Cryoburn

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...

Gentleman Jole And The Red Queen

The last volume of Bujold's award winning Vorkosigan saga, Cordelia needs to find a new direction for her life.

The Warrior's Apprentice

And another writer where we could pick just about any of her novels for this list. We've chosen The Warrior's Apprentice not because it's the best of them (it isn't),...