Bujold ’ s approach varies, sometimes crossing genres.

Bujold ’ s father and brother were engineers, and many of the technological details she incorporates are based on 20th-century engineering situations, projected into null-g or alternative solar system situations ( this is especially true of Falling Free, the most technologically dense of the novels ).

Bujold devised for this planet a history which allowed for “ swords ‘ n ’ spaceships .” Barrayar in the lifetime of Miles Vorkosigan commands spaceships, computers, and other high technology, but its culture remembers dueling, examines newborns for defects and practices infanticide if any are found, celebrates the Emperor ’ s birthday by handing him bags of gold, and provides liveried life-sworn servants to carry love-letters sealed with the writer's blood.

It is published in the book entitled Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma, which is a collection of short stories and essays by Bujold that had been previously unpublished and that she gathered together in this volume prior to her appearance at a NESFA convention.

Several of Bujold ’ s scenes can be seen on the Season One DVD extras.

All five of its issues were published while the show was still on the air, and included letters from D. C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry, and most of the cast members, and an article by future Hugo and Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold.

Lois McMaster Bujold ( Last name pronounced phonetically in American English as " Bu-Jold "; born November 2, 1949, Columbus, Ohio ) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.

Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.

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The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

Bujold herself has commented that her posited system is neither technologically nor economically feasible, but is rather a convenience for storytelling.

Bujold has stated on her blog that she is generally in favor of reading the books in internal chronological order.

A version of this production with Geneviève Bujold is available on DVD.

Ethan of Athos is an English language science fiction novel that is part of the Vorkosigan Saga by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.

Alternatively, it may be an indirect tribute to the actor Oliver Reed, whom Bujold is known to admire ( she has cited him as a model for Miles ' father Aral Vorkosigan ); Reed played the role of Athos in the 1973 film version of The Three Musketeers.

Athos, a three mooned planet undergoing extensive terraforming, is what author Lois McMaster Bujold refers to as a " monastery " planet, similar to real-life all-male cloisters.

On his way to work, Stewart visits Denise Marshall ( Bujold ), an actress who is the widow of one of his friends and co-workers.

* Zap is a half-tame female cat in the SF novel Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

Obsession is a 1976 psychological thriller / mystery directed by Brian De Palma, starring Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, and John Lithgow.

Paladin of Souls is a 2003 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Joseph Roger Rémi Bujold, PC, CM ( born October 18, 1944 ) is a lawyer and former Canadian politician.

Bujold is Chair of the Canadian Landmine Foundation, and Past-Chairman of the Board of the Council for Canadian Unity, an organization that he joined in 1990.

Dr. Susan Wheeler ( Geneviève Bujold ) is a surgical resident at Boston Memorial Hospital.

The Curse of Chalion is a 2001 fantasy novel by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Cetaganda is the collective name for an 8-planet empire in the Wormhole Nexus of the Vorkosigan Saga novels of Lois McMaster Bujold.

Lois McMaster Bujold has received four Hugos on nine nominations ; the only other authors to win more than twice are Isaac Asimov ( including one Retro Hugo ), Connie Willis, and Vernor Vinge, who have each won three times.

The Fivefold Pathway does not exist as an independent book ; a fanfictional version existed at one time on the Bujold fansite, http :// www. dendarii. com /, but that text seems to have disappeared.

Bujold pays token attention to the variations in measurable time units from planet to planet, positing an earth-based “ standard year ” which holds through the entire Nexus.

The Nexus allows Bujold, paradoxically, to imagine a world in which travel and communication require far more time and effort than in the real-life 21st century, since the wormhole jumps present a special barrier.

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.

The film was nominated for 8 Genie Awards in 1980, of which it won 5, including Best Achievement in Direction ( Bob Clark ), Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role ( Geneviève Bujold ) and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role ( Christopher Plummer ).

He went on to star with Geneviève Bujold in Antigone which was later made into a film in 1974.

* Stunners in the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold which causes a temporary reduction in nerve activity within a radius of the impact site.

After an absence from filmmaking of almost a decade, Almond was called in to direct the film Final Assignment ( 1980 ), and went on directing three more films ; Ups and Downs ( 1983 ), Captive Hearts ( 1987 ) and The Dance Goes On ( 1991 ), the later featuring once again Bujold, and their son Matt Almond.

Lois McMaster Bujold at Finncon 2012 in Tampere, Finland.

The various forms of society and government Bujold presents often reflect 20th-century politics.

Bujold presents issues of technological obsolescence and the high rate of failure of R & D projects in personal terms, via bioengineering.

Human life requires Earth-based botanical life, and Bujold devotes a good deal of attention in some novels to this.

Bujold presents a variety of realistic food supply technologies, including hydroponics, cultured or vat-grown meat, and fish farming.

Although Bujold explores and satirizes many kinds of societies and prejudices, her universe lacks or fails to consider several sources of social organization and prejudice on Earth: language, skin color, and religion.

Instead, Bujold builds prejudice into the “ locale ,” i. e. planetary, economics and history.

The novels have been translated into a number of languages ; see the catalog of covers of various international editions at Bujold Cover Art Archive.

When beginning her first novel, Shards of Honor, Bujold incorporated these elements, but greatly expanded.