* In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga novels, the inhabitants of the planet Komarr live in arcologies, because the surface of the planet is inhospitable.

In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, Cordelia Naismith frequently muses on the axiom All Cretans are liars in her inner monologue.

The bulk of Bujold's works are part of three separate book series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the Chalion Series, and the Sharing Knife series.

A Warrior's Apprentice comic book was published in France in January 2010, the first of a projected series called La Saga Vorkosigan ..

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.

It is also the only Vorkosigan Saga story not published or republished by Baen Books.

* List of Vorkosigan Saga planets

* The Cryoburn CD 2010 – Vorkosigan Saga ebooks previously made freely available by the publisher, retracted as of July 2012

* The Vorkosigan series of Novels and Stories – Another listing for The Vorkosigan Saga.

* Retrospective reviews of the Vorkosigan Saga by Jo Walton

** Interview with Bujold about writing the Vorkosigan Saga by Jo Walton, 2009

** Summary and critical comments on the Vorkosigan Saga by Jo Walton

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For example, neither Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga nor George R. R. Martin's 1970s short stories which share a backdrop are generally considered future histories.

* Vorkosigan Saga

* Vorkosigan Saga ( Bujold ) – List of Vorkosigan Saga planets,: Category: Vorkosigan Saga planets

The point of view characters include women ( Cordelia in Shards of Honor, Barrayar ; Ekaterin in Komarr and A Civil Campaign ), a gay man ( Ethan of Athos ), and a pair of brothers, one of whom is disabled and the other a clone ( Miles and Mark Vorkosigan ).

Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, the protagonist of most of the series, is the son of a Betan mother and a Barrayaran aristocrat, embodying this contrast.

The society of Miles Vorkosigan ’ s lifetime is almost paperless.

By the time Miles Vorkosigan is 20, in The Vor Game, Beta Colony has begun to develop garments which protect the wearer from nerve disruptors.

Barrayar is a planet colonized by humans some four hundred years prior to Shards of Honor, the first Vorkosigan novel.

While Cordelia Vorkosigan is pregnant with Miles, an attempted assassination severely injures her unborn child.

Miles has just graduated from the Imperial Academy, and is at home at Vorkosigan Surleau with his parents.

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

It is an unusual item in the series in that it does not feature Miles Vorkosigan, the protagonist of almost all the other books.

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.

It is confirmed elsewhere in the Vorkosigan Saga that ovum cells and sperm are not necessarily required for reproduction ; all that is needed are any healthy cells from the donor ( s ).

The term " military space opera " is occasionally used to denote this subgenre, as used for example by critic Sylvia Kelso when describing Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga.

Vorkosigan is an important surname in Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series, the Vorkosigan Saga.

Captain Lord Ivan Vorpatril, also known as " That Idiot Ivan " or " Ivan, You Idiot " ( a likely reference to Ivan the Fool, common hero of Russian folk tales ), is a fictional character in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga.

Lady Alys Vorpatril is an important side character in Lois McMaster Bujold's sci-fi series, the Vorkosigan Saga.

Lady Alys is the mother of Ivan Vorpatril, the cousin of the series ' main character, Miles Vorkosigan.

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

Within the Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda is principally important for its unsuccessful attempts to gain control of the planet Barrayar, home to the saga's central character, Miles Vorkosigan.

* Miles Vorkosigan – Aral Vorkosigan's son and the main character of most of the series

Sequences of genre fiction are not generally considered romans-fleuve ; the Aubrey – Maturin series of Patrick O ' Brian might qualify, and possibly the Vorkosigan Series of Lois McMaster Bujold.

Lois McMasters Bujold quotes Pilgrim's Progress in her short story " Borders of Infinity " set in her science fiction Vorkosigan Saga.

Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.

Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan novels brought the character-driven story back into prominence.

* Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan novels

The events of the novel are obliquely referred to in the novels Vorkosigan Saga # Cetaganda | Cetaganda and Borders of Infinity.

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