Who is Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science-fiction world in 1986 with Shards of Honor, the first of the Vorkosigan Saga novels. She has won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award twice. The mother of two, she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Brothers in Arms: A Miles Vorkosigan Novel - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle, shuttle repair, and a well deserved rest. But when someone tries to murder Miles, he realizes he's in trouble again. Now Miles must juggle both his identities at once to unravel the complicated plot...
Cetaganda - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorksigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arrival, the two men are inexplicably att...
Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Horror & Suspense
Amidst the decaying splendor and poisonous intrigue of Chalion's ancient capital, Lord Cazaril is forced to confront not only powerful enemies but also the malignant curse that clings to the royal ...
Hallowed Hunt - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
When Prince Boleso is slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile, it falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to bring the Lady Ijada to court for judgment. But his road is fraught with danger, and in a climate of political upheaval, his prisoner may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
Komarr: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to investigate a problem on the conquered planet of Komarr. But a betrayal there a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. Thus the Komarrans surrounding Miles could be loyal subjects or rebels...
Memory: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Miles is recovering slowly from his first death when he makes the mistake of returning too soon to military duty. Now he finds himself summoned home to face the Barrayaran security chief, Simon Illyan
Mirror Dance - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Miles's clone, Mark, originally raised to assassinate him, has been freed, and now Miles has put him in charge of a mission to free other clones using Miles's secret identity. But when the mission goes awry and the rescue goes even more wrong, Miles ends up in cryogenic suspension. Will Mark...
Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fantasy
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. Yet her newfound freedom is bitters...
Sharing Knife, Vol. 1: Beguilement - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Young Fawn Bluefield has been kidnapped by an inhuman entity known as a malice. To her rescue comes Dag, one of the enigmatic soldier-sorcerers known as Lakewalkers. But in the ensuing struggle, an uncanny accident befalls Dag's sharing knife, which unexpectedly binds their two fates together.
Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the military academy only to be assigned to an arctic training camp, where he averts a massacre between the base commander and mutinous recruits, before being reassigned to investigate a suspicious military buildup near a wormhole nexus.
Warrior's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold Fiction / Sci-Fi & Fantasy
This is the second book in the saga of the Vorkosigans and introduces Miles Vorkosigan. At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy; he passes the written but manages to break both his legs on the obstacle course, washing out before he begins....

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Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

"Any community's arm of force-military, police, security-needs people in it who can do the necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary, and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." --Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

"Honor is not diminished for being shared." --Lois McMaster Bujold Shards of Honor

"My home is not a place, it is people." --Lois McMaster Bujold Barrayar

"A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind." --Lois McMaster Bujold The Vor Game

"If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way." --Lois McMaster Bujold Borders of Infinity

"People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture." --Lois McMaster Bujold Mirror Dance

"If you can't do what you want, do what you can." --Lois McMaster Bujold Memory

"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack." --Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them." --Lois McMaster Bujold Diplomatic Immunity

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  • WritingforYourWealth Aug 5, 2008 @ 3:49 am | delete
    Woohoo, a lens on my favorite author. I heard there was a new Miles book in the works. :)

    You ought to add to this lens a bit. Bujold has some awesome quotes, and I think.... yup, here's a page with a bunch of them:

    http://www.fiction-quotations.com/lois-mcmaster-bujold-quotations.htm

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