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Bujold, Lois McMaster was born on November 2, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Robert Charles and Laura Elizabeth McMaster.
(An entertaining novel by award winning Science Fiction au...)
An entertaining novel by award winning Science Fiction author, Lois McMaster Bujold. A very good addition to the Miles Vorkosigan series with an outsider's viewpoint which enables an introduction for a new reader to continue with the other books. A satisfying novel for Bujold fans.
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(While being a space-faring empire, Barrayar still harbors...)
While being a space-faring empire, Barrayar still harbors deep-rooted prejudices and superstitions, including those against "mutants." *** When a Dendarii hill-woman comes before Aral Vorkosigan seeking justice for the murder of her infant baby who has been killed because of her physical defects, the Barrayaran Lord sends his son Miles to a remote mountain village to discover the truth and carry out Imperial justice and at the same time attack these long-held barbaric beliefs. *** And who better than Miles Vorkosigan, who has himself struggled with these prejudices all his life because of his own physical deformities. *** The Mountains of Mourning is a stand-alone novella that takes place (chronologically) between the events relayed in The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game. It won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards the year it was published, as well as an SF Chronicles Award for best Novella.
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(The point of conflict is clear and straightforward: the d...)
The point of conflict is clear and straightforward: the democratic Betans versus the ultra-militaristic Barrayarans. At least that's what biologist Cordelia Naismith, heroine of Shards of Honor, believes. But when she's stranded on an unexplored planet - at the mercy of Aral Vorkosigan, the very Barrayaran she's been taught to despise - she discovers that the truth has become crudely twisted. And when Vorkosigan, himself the victim of a politically inspired mutiny, tries to draw Cordelia into the struggle against his culture's fascistic military elite, she has to make a choice. A choice that will mean betrayal, no matter which side she's on. In THE WARRIOR'S APPRENTICE, Cordelia's son, Miles, depressed and angry after failing the physical entrance exams to military training school, decides to take a long vacation - and inadvertently falls into a deal well suited to his abilities and sense of adventure. He buys a starship, contracts to smuggle contraband into a war zone - and without quite meaning to, he finds himself a far-too-active participant in the war!
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(Poco antes de fallecer, Ezar, emperador de Barrayar, nomb...)
Poco antes de fallecer, Ezar, emperador de Barrayar, nombra regente a Aral Vorkosigan hasta que Gregor, su sucesor, alcance la mayoría de edad. Aral deberá enfrentarse a diversos complots contra el futuro emperador y contra su misma regencia, protagonizados por disidentes de la nobleza Vor. En semejante contexto, Cordelia Naismith, futura madre de Miles Vorkosigan y capitana de Beta, se convierte en la esposa del regente. / Before his death, Ezar, Emperor of Barrayar, appoints regent to Aral Vorkosigan until Gregor, his heir, comes of age. Aral must face several complots against the future emperor and against his own regency, playing the lead by the dissidents of the Nobility Vor. In such context, Cordelia Naismith, future mother of Miles Vorkosigan and captain of Beta, becomes the wife of the Regent.
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(In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a...)
In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan - he who was called "The Butcher of Komarr" - and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral suddenly became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar - and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell-damaged unborn son would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy. This edition includes an author's afterword, and a chronology of the events in the Vorkosigan Saga series. Cover art by Gary Ruddell. **Publisher's note: Cordelia's Honor is comprised of two parts: Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Together they form a continuous story following the life of Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith from the day she met her then-enemy Lord Aral Vorkosigan through the boyhood of her son Miles. Barrayar won the 1992 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year, and also the 1992 Locus Poll Award, Best SF Novel. It was also nominated for the 1991 Nebula Award. Shards of Honor placed 2nd in the 1987 Locus Poll Award for best first novel, and was nominated for the 1987 Compton Crook Award. Cordelia's Honor was published by Baen in trade paperback and in mass market paperback. This Science Fiction Book Club edition is its first general hardcover edition.
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(The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels...)
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. The first of these was published in 1986 and the most recent in 2016. Works in the series have received numerous awards and nominations, including three Hugo award wins. Bujold's approach varies, sometimes crossing genres. All the novels include humor and comedy, sometimes very black and juxtaposed with tragic deaths or losses. She mixes military adventure, political thriller, romance, and the whodunit in various proportions. Miles Naismith Vorkosigan was not a mutan, though he was often mistaken for one. Cursed with brittle bones that neither grew nor healed properly, a dwarf-like body and a face prematurely lined with the agony of too many corrective surgeries, and too many people who would not accept his difference. Miles refused to hide behind his Vor rank. With a brilliant mind, courage honed by a desire for adventure, and an ever-ready sense of the absurd, he carved out his own place in the galactic scheme. This omnibus includes 1) THE VOR GAME (1990) - When his boyhood chum, Gregor, the Imperial Emperor, goes AWOL, chance places the exiled ensign Miles Vorkosigan in a position to extricate Gregor, the Dendarii Mercenaries, and himself from a very sticky and potentially deadly political situation, 2) THE BORDERS OF INFINITY (1987) - The adventures of Miles Vorkosigan continue in these three tales, in which Miles must play detective in a murder case, adopt his undercover persona for a rescue mission, and play hero for a POW camp and a deeply distressed damsel, and 3) THE MOUNTAINS OF MOURNING (1989) - Miles Vorkosigan is sent to a small mountain village to investigate the murder of an infant, killed because she had a physical defect. Miles must deal with deep-seated prejudice against "mutants" and uncover the real killer in this novella that won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
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(Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer:...)
Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer: mind your own business, fix what's wrong and move on to the next job. Everything neat and according to spec, just the way he liked it. But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Could you just stand there and allow the exploitation of hundreds of helpless children merely to enhance the bottom line of a heartless mega-corporation? Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies--now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
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(Being a Vor lord on the war-torn planet Barrayar wasn't e...)
Being a Vor lord on the war-torn planet Barrayar wasn't easy. Being an officer in Barrayar's military wasn't easy. And being the leader of a force of spaceborne mercenaries while maintaining a secret identity wasn't easy -- in fact it should have been impossible, to say nothing of being a capital offense on Barrayar. Not that impossibility or great danger would slow down young Miles Vorkosigan much. Washed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for being overly fragile (he had been biochemically damaged during an assassination attempt while still in his mother's womb), Mile's natural (if unorthodox) leadership qualities quickly led to his off-handedly acquiring a fleet of nineteen ships and three thousand troops, all unswervingly loyal to him -- or at least to his alter ego, Admiral Naismith. In short order, he foiled a plot against his father, returned to and graduated from the academy, solved a murder among his people, joined a mutiny against a deranged superior officer, thwarted an intersteallar invasion, and rescued the Barrayaran Emperor. Then things get interesting.... Publisher's Note: Young Miles was previously published in parts as The Warrior's Apprentice, "The Mountains of Mourning," and The Vor Game.
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(Ediciones B. Barcelona. 1998. 23 cm. 268 p. Encuadernació...)
Ediciones B. Barcelona. 1998. 23 cm. 268 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Nova', 106. Bujold, Lois McMaster 1949-. Ethan of Athos. Traducción, Rafael Martín Trechera. Traducción de: Ethan o Athos. Nova ciencia ficción. 106 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-406-4414-0
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Bujold, Lois McMaster was born on November 2, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Robert Charles and Laura Elizabeth McMaster.
(The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels...)
(In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a...)
(Poco antes de fallecer, Ezar, emperador de Barrayar, nomb...)
(While being a space-faring empire, Barrayar still harbors...)
(Leo Graf was just your average highly efficient engineer:...)
(The point of conflict is clear and straightforward: the d...)
(An entertaining novel by award winning Science Fiction au...)
(Being a Vor lord on the war-torn planet Barrayar wasn't e...)
(Trevor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold. Connecticut: The Eas...)
(Ediciones B. Barcelona. 1998. 23 cm. 268 p. Encuadernació...)
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Member Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers American, Novelists, Inc.
Married John Fredric Bujold, October 9, 1971 (divorced December 1992). Children: Anne Elizabeth, Paul Andre.