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.

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 ’ 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 ’ s future is one in which genetic manipulation can produce almost any kind of clone or hybrid.

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

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entitled Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma, which is a collection of short stories and essays by Bujold that had been previously unpublished and that she gathered together in this volume prior to her appearance at a NESFA convention.

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.

Tightrope ( 1984 ) had Eastwood starring opposite his daughter Alison, Geneviève Bujold, and Jamie Rose in a provocative thriller, inspired by newspaper articles about an elusive Bay Area rapist.

In 1959, Michael Courtland ( Robertson ), a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered when his wife Elizabeth ( Bujold ) and young daughter Amy are kidnapped.

Notable authors who cite her influence include Greg Bear, Lois McMaster Bujold, C. J. Cherryh, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Tanya Huff, Mercedes Lackey, Charles de Lint, Joan D. Vinge, David Weber, K. D. Wentworth, and Catherine Asaro.

WisCon Guests of Honor have included Eleanor Arnason, Iain M. Banks, Lois McMaster Bujold, Emma Bull, Pat Cadigan, Avedon Carol, Terry Carr, Suzy McKee Charnas, Buck & Juanita Coulson, Samuel R. Delany, Charles de Lint, Beverly DeWeese, Gardner Dozois, L. Timmel Duchamp, Suzette Haden Elgin, Carol Emshwiller, Karen Joy Fowler, Jeanne Gomoll, Nicola Griffith, Andrea Hairston, Barbara Hambly, David Hartwell, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Nalo Hopkinson, Ellen Klages, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Elizabeth A. Lynn, R. A. MacAvoy, Katherine MacLean, George R. R. Martin, Maureen McHugh, Vonda N. McIntyre, Patricia A. McKillip, Judith Merril, China Miéville, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, Trina Robbins, Mary Doria Russell, Geoff Ryman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Pamela Sargent, Melissa Scott, Nisi Shawl, Stu Shiffman, Sheri S. Tepper, John Varley, Joan D. Vinge, Elisabeth Vonarburg, Howard Waldrop, Connie Willis, Terri Windling, Don & Elsie Wollheim, Susan Wood, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

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 at Finncon 2012 in Tampere, Finland.

* The Bujold Nexus – Official website of the author Lois McMaster Bujold

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* Passage ( 2008 novel ), a novel by Lois McMaster Bujold

* Athos, a fictional planet in the novel Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold

* Lois McMaster Bujold loosely bases the character Prospero Beneforte in her 1992 fantasy novel The Spirit Ring on Cellini and his works.

* Lois McMaster Bujold – The Curse of Chalion

* Hugo Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance

* Nebula Award: Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free

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Category: Novels by 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 Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold ( Eos )

* Hugo Award for Best Novel: Lois McMaster Bujold, Paladin of Souls

* Cordelia Naismith, in the Vorkosigan Saga novels by Lois McMaster Bujold