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.

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 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 ).

Directed by Mark Robson and with a screenplay by George Fox and Mario Puzo, the film starred a large cast of well-known actors, including Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal, Monica Lewis and ( under an alias ) Walter Matthau.

While that film featured a larger " all star " cast ( in fact, Universal had approached several, including Steve McQueen and Paul Newman, to star in Earthquake-but they had already been signed for Inferno ), Universal was able to land Charlton Heston in the lead role, along with Ava Gardner ( who signed at the proverbial " 11th hour " simply because she wanted to spend the summer in Los Angeles ), George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold ( who agreed to a part in the film to head off an impending lawsuit by Universal over a prior project ), Richard Roundtree ( riding a wave of success from the Shaft film series ), former evangelical Marjoe Gortner as an antagonist, and newcomer Victoria Principal.

It was praised by many notable figures in the genre, including Lois McMaster Bujold and Jane Yolen, and was nominated for a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature as well.

* Fantastic Fiction's Bujold website, including a link to a page for The Hallowed Hunt.

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.

Lois McMaster Bujold at Finncon 2012 in Tampere, Finland.

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 ’ s approach varies, sometimes crossing genres.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

In the opinion of J. Thomas Looney, as " far as forms of versification are concerned De Vere presents just that rich variety which is so noticeable in Shakespeare ; and almost all the forms he employs we find reproduced in the Shakespeare work.

Each publication presents and elaborates a set of standards for use in a variety of educational settings.

The publisher operates from an evangelical Christian point of view, but the site links to and presents a variety of viewpoints.

The number of court cases involving DID has increased substantially since the 1990s and the diagnosis presents a variety of challenges for legal systems.

The 1410 manuscript by Fiore dei Liberi presents a variety of uses for the longsword.

In a very small area, Melk presents a great deal of architectural variety from many centuries.

He employs an orthography that presents the reader with the difficult combination of eye dialect, dense Scots, and a greater variety of verse forms than employed hitherto.

Each publication presents and elaborates a set of standards for use in a variety of educational settings.

The Pantanal lowlands cover 12 municipalities and presents an enormous variety of flora and fauna, with forests, natural sand banks, savannahs, open pasture, fields and bushes.

Lucretius presents the principles of atomism ; the nature of the mind and soul ; explanations of sensation and thought ; the development of the world and its phenomena ; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena.

HLN presents a variety of programming, providing rolling news coverage from the early morning through the late afternoon ( Eastern Time ), followed by subject-oriented programming during primetime hours.

* Musikhuset Aarhus, the Concert Hall of Aarhus, presents a wide variety of classical and popular music including singing and dance.

Each publication presents and elaborates a set of standards for use in a variety of educational settings.

It contains the Student Union, which houses offices for the Student Association and student-interest clubs ; Slee Hall, which presents contemporary and classical music concerts ; Alumni Arena, the home-court for University Athletics ; the UB Center for the Arts, a non-profit presenter of a wide variety of professional entertainment and UB Stadium, the 30, 000 seat Football Stadium.

A graphical interface that presents price, volume and technical analysis indicators through a variety of visual interfaces such as line, bar, candlestick and open-high-low-close ( OHLC ) charts.

As part of a " learning by doing " philosophy, the school presents more than 40 productions each season in a variety of venues.

Not far away, Richard Hugo House hosts literary artists-in-residence and presents a wide variety of public performances, classes, and other events throughout the year.

It presents deeply researched exhibitions on a variety of topics and periods in American history, such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Slavery in New York, The Hudson River School, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Tiffany designer Clara Driscol, and the history of the Constitution.

The Common Cuckoo presents an interesting case in which the species as a whole parasitizes a wide variety of hosts, but individual females specialize in a single species.

Ehb presents a rich variety of terrains and peoples for players to interact with.

Reviewers have studied the novel from a variety of angles and have generally agreed that the book presents a poignant, insightful examination of not only the generation gap between mothers and daughters, but of the gaps between different cultures as well.

The city's culture presents a strong Caribbean influence that nevertheless is not exclusive of other cultural expressions from among the variety found in Colombia.

The Peel Heritage Complex presents a variety of exhibitions with historical and cultural significance to the Peel community.

Another name for a Current affairs programme A television program that presents a variety of topics, usually on current events, in a format that often includes interviews and commentary.