Books by Lois McMaster Bujold and Complete Book Reviews

Lois McMaster Bujold, Author Baen Books $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-57827-5
Bujold dedicates her new novel to the Bront s, Georgette Heyer and Dorothy Sayers, which gives a pretty good indication of the territory she's staked out in this well-done addition (after Komarr) to her popular Miles Vorkosigan series. Miles, forced
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (200p) ISBN 978-1-59606-863-6
Bujold adds mystery to the wry humor that runs through her Penric and Desdemona fantasy series with this entertaining novella. Set between Penric and the Shaman and Penric’s Mission, this tale sees temple sorcerer Penric and his indwelling demon,...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (184p) ISBN 978-1-59606-769-1
Bujold (Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen) returns to her World of the Five Gods universe with a novella filled with a satisfying blend of strong characters and wry humor. Lord Penric kin Jurald is a younger son of a minor noble house whose life is...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Baen, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8122-8
This enjoyable addition to the Vorkosigan family saga (after Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance) will work best for readers who don’t expect interstellar derring-do but are prepared to amble through a gently developing romance. Cordelia Naismith...
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author Baen Books $24 (512p) ISBN 978-0-671-31858-1
Award-winning, prolific SF novelist Lois McMaster Bujold serves up three previously published Miles Vorkosigan stories in a gender/reproduction/bioethics ""thematic unit,"" which also happens to progress in chronological order. In Miles, Mystery &
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author Baen Books $21 (392p) ISBN 978-0-671-72210-4
Honor and his sense of self place the fetally damaged, dwarf-like and brilliant Miles Vorkosigan in grave danger as he attempts to save his disturbed, younger clone Mark from the consequences of folly in this intricate and rousing new installment of
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author . Baen $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3533-8
Those who have followed Bujold's superb far-future saga about the undersized and unorthodox warrior, Miles Vorkosigan, will heave a sigh of relief as our hero and his beloved Ekaterin enjoy wedded bliss (including looking at "baby pictures,&#
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author Baen Books $22 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-87877-1
Rendered unfit for military service by incurable seizures resulting from his having died, been cryofrozen and then revived, Miles Vorkosigan has managed to land on his feet once again, this time as an Imperial Auditor handling top-secret...
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Baen, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4391-3394-1
Fans have been clamoring for Hugo winner Bujold to pen a new Vorkosigan Saga novel since 2002's Diplomatic Immunity, and they will not be disappointed by this thoughtful tale. Only five days after arriving on Kibou-daini for a cryonics conference,...
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author . Eos $25.95 (453p) ISBN 978-0-06-137536-1
Bujold's Sharing Knife series concludes on a cheerful note that will please fans of fantasy romance. The Lakewalkers have been humanity's only defense against the Malices, vicious creatures who turn their victims into murderous zombie-like
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author . Eos $25.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-06-137533-0
Nebula and Hugo–winner Bujold explores culture clashes in this compelling third segment of the Sharing Knife series (after 2007's Legacy ). Former Lakewalker captain Dag has been exiled from his family for marrying an outsider, farmer'
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author . Eos $25.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-06-113758-7
Compelling characters lift this first of a two-book romantic fantasy from Hugo-winner Bujold (The Hallowed Heart ), set in a dangerous land without a name, though individual towns, villages and hamlets are specified. Dag, a Lakewalker patroller with
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author . Eos $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-057462-8
The absorbing third installment in Bujold's epic fantasy series (after The Curse of Chalion and the Hugo-winning Paladin of Souls ) links a disinherited swordsman hero with a beguiling damsel accused of murdering a royal prince in a land...
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author . Eos $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-380-97902-8
In this sequel to The Curse of Chalion (2001), rich in sumptuous detail and speculative theology, dowager royina Ista Dy Baocia undertakes a pilgrimage to ease her soul—and finds instead that in Chalion, Bujold's handsomely crafted...
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author, Bujold, Author Baen Books $22 (462p) ISBN 978-0-671-87743-9
Miles Vorkosigan, secret agent extraordinaire and hero of six previous Bujold novels, has made a serious error. Not entirely recovered from the near-fatal injuries sustained in Mirror Dance (1994), he has a seizure while in combat, nearly wrecking...
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author, Bujold, Author Baen Books $17 (369p) ISBN 978-0-671-72142-8
Hugo and Nebula winner Bujold (the Miles Vorkosigan series; Barrayar ) makes her hardcover debut with this enthralling dark fantasy set in Renaissance Italy, where the church regulates magic and licenses magicians. After Uberto Ferrante assassinates
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Author, Bujold, Author Baen Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-87701-9
The power to engineer a civilization's genetic destiny fosters new variations on old struggles for political power in this entertaining space-operatic entry in Bujold's long-running Vorkosigan saga. Miles Vorkosigan, hero of Mirror Dance (winner of...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (216p) ISBN 978-1-59606-815-5
Bujold follows Penric’s Demon with another brief tale set in her World of the Five Gods, this time combining supernatural sleuthing with finely drawn characters and a panoply of emotions. Four years after the events of the previous novella, Penric...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (264p) ISBN 978-1-59606-844-5
Bujold pushes series protagonist Penric in new directions in his third adventure in her World of the Five Gods (after Penric and the Shaman). In this tale, rather than working directly for the Bastard’s Order, Penric has been seconded to the Duke of
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59606-854-4
Bujold’s Shakespearean fantasy novella returns to the story arc that began in Penric’s Mission, continuing the flight of Temple sorcerer Penric, ex-general Adelis Arisaydia, and Adelis’s sister, Nikys Khatai, from Imperial Cedonian forces. In the...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-892-6
Bujold (The Prisoner of Limnos) expands her Hugo-winning Vorkosigan series with this enjoyable standalone novella, which begins with Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan’s bioengineered radiation remediation bugs and ends with an unlikely rescue. Eighty years...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59606-954-1
Bujold’s Sharing Knife series returns (after 2009’s Horizon) with this fun, short installment that offers a glimpse into familial life in the world of Oleana. Barr Foxbrush, a Lakewalker, makes his way home after two years fighting evil in the north
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-59606-972-5
Bujold’s seventh addition to her fantasy World of the Five Gods series (after The Prisoner of Limnos) offers a pleasant little side quest for Penric, a Temple sorcerer, and Desdemona, the chaos demon living inside him. Sent overseas on a problem-solv
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $30 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64524-021-1
The timely, well-told ninth fantasy in Bujold’s Penric and Desdemona series (after The Orphans of Raspay) returns to the World of the Five Gods where temple sorcerer Penric and chaos demon Desdemona, who cohabitate Penric’s body, deal with a plague...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $40 (176p) ISBN 978-1-64524-047-1
Bujold’s enjoyable ninth Penric & Desdemona novella (after The Physicians of Vilnoc) takes readers back to an earlier time in temple sorcerer Penric’s life, presenting a 29-year-old Penric and Desdemona, the demon who shares his body, with a mystery
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $48 (456p) ISBN 978-1-64524-089-1
The clever 10th outing in Bujold’s Penric and Desdemona series (after Masquerade in Lodi) has Temple sorcerer Pen and the demon who shares his body, Des, facing a sorcerous assassin sent by the rival realm of Cedonia to kill Pen’s brother-in-law,...
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Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $45 (160p) ISBN 978-1-64524-114-0
Temple sorcerer Penric and demon Desdemona return in this page-turner fantasy mystery from Bujold, the 11th in the series (after The Assassins of Thasalon) and possibly the best yet. Penric and Desdemona, the chaos elemental who shares his body, are
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