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Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with expectations of ship command, so he is disappointed with the assignment of meteorologist to an arctic training camp. But his tenure in the snow-covered north is cut short when he narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. Miles is reassigned to investigate a suspicious military buildup near a wormhole nexus. Reviving his underco...

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. His tenure is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits.

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. His tenure is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits.

Young Fawn has been kidnapped by an evil inhuman malice, and it is up to the enigmatic soldier-sorcerer Dag to rescue her. In the struggle, an uncanny accident befalls Dag's knife, which unexpectedly binds their fates together.

Young Fawn has been kidnapped by an evil inhuman malice, and it is up to the enigmatic soldier-sorcerer Dag to rescue her. In the struggle, an uncanny accident befalls Dag's knife, which unexpectedly binds their fates together.

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When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arriving, 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 caught in the middle of a mystery. Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture, whil...

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Miles Vorkosigan makes his debut in this frenetic coming-of-age tale. At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy, he passes the written but manages, through miscalculation in a moment of anger, to break both his legs on the obstacle course, washing out before he begins. His aged grandfather dies in his sleep shortly after, and Miles blames himself. He is sent to visit his grandmother Naismith on...

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On Athos, a world without women, Dr. Ethan Urquhart delivers babies from uterine replicators. But when the ovarian cultures start dwindling, he is sent abroad on a mission to replenish the planets stocks.

Shards of Honor is the novel in which Lois McMaster Bujold introduced the science-fiction world to Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith, thus beginning a multigenerational saga spanning time as well as space.

When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.

When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.

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As Dag's powers have grown, so has his frustration with the Lakewalkers' rigid mores. When the old traditions fail, can Dags and Fawns untried new ways stand against their world's deadliest foe?

Cordelia Naismith has deserted her own home planet to marry the leader of the enemy Barrayarans, Aral Vorkosigan. Together, they struggle to establish stability on a planet threatened by civil war.