Editing Lois McMaster Bujold

{{Short description|American speculative fiction author (born 1949)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name        = Lois McMaster Bujold
| image       = Lois-mcmaster-bujold-by-kyle-cassidy.jpg
| caption     = Bujold at home in 2009
| birth_name  = Lois Joy McMaster<ref name=SFE/>
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1949|11|2|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Columbus, Ohio]], U.S.
| occupation  = Novelist
| nationality = American
| alma_mater  = [[Ohio State University]]<ref name="LMBbiolog"/>
| period      = 1985–present
| children    = 2
| spouse      =
| genre       = [[Science fiction]], [[fantasy]]
| website     = {{URL|dendarii.com}}
}}

'''Lois McMaster Bujold''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-us-Bujold.ogg|b|uː|ˈ|ʒ|oʊ|l|d}} {{respell|boo|ZHOHLD|'}}<!--Please visit the talk page section on this topic-->; born November 2, 1949) is an American [[speculative fiction]] writer.<ref name="SFE"/> She has won the [[Hugo Award]] for best novel four times, matching [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella ''[[The Mountains of Mourning]]'' won both the Hugo Award and [[Nebula Award]]. In the fantasy genre, ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]'' won the [[Mythopoeic Award]] for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 [[World Fantasy Award]] for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for ''[[Paladin of Souls]]''. In 2011 she was awarded the [[Edward E. Smith Memorial Award|Skylark Award]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nesfa.org/awards/skylark.html| title=Skylark Award| publisher=[[New England Science Fiction Association]]| access-date=2013-10-15| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204000351/http://www.nesfa.org/awards/skylark.html| archive-date=2008-12-04| url-status=dead}}</ref> She has won two [[Hugo Award for Best Series|Hugo Awards for Best Series]], in 2017 for the [[Vorkosigan Saga]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/ |title=2017 Hugo Awards |publisher=The Hugo Awards |date=31 December 2016 |access-date=21 August 2017 |archive-date=12 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812030011/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 2018 for the [[World of the Five Gods]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2018-hugo-awards/|title=2018 Hugo Awards|date=2018-03-15|publisher=The Hugo Awards|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2018-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402094920/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2018-hugo-awards/|url-status=live}}</ref> The Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 36th SFWA [[Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award|Grand Master]] in 2019.<ref name="SFWAGM">{{cite web |title=Lois McMaster Bujold Named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/lois-mcmaster-bujold-named-sfwa-damon-knight-grand-master/ |website=Nebula Awards |date=9 December 2019 |publisher=Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America |access-date=9 December 2019 |archive-date=9 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209190359/https://nebulas.sfwa.org/lois-mcmaster-bujold-named-sfwa-damon-knight-grand-master/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the World of the Five Gods, and the [[The Sharing Knife|Sharing Knife]] series.

==Biography==
[[File:Bujold2012.png|thumb|Bujold at [[Finncon]] 2012 in [[Tampere]]]]

Bujold is the daughter of [[Robert Charles McMaster]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dendarii.com/tribute.html |title=A Tribute to Robert Charles McMaster |website=Dendarii.com |access-date=2021-08-07 |archive-date=2020-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221123149/http://www.dendarii.com/tribute.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1384&page=266 |title=Memorial Tributes: Volume 3 |chapter=Robert Charles McMaster |pages=266–271 |last=Jaffee |first=Robert I| year=1989 |doi=10.17226/1384 |isbn=978-0-309-03939-0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150727045810/http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1384&page=266 |archive-date=2015-07-27 |url-status=live}}</ref> and attributes her early interest in science fiction, as well as certain aspects of the [[Vorkosigan Saga]], to his influence. He was editor of the ''Nondestructive Testing Handbook''.<ref name="NDThandbook">{{cite book | editor-last=MacMaster | editor-first=Robert C. | title=Nondestructive Testing Handbook | publisher=Amer Society for Nondestructive | orig-date=1959 | date=1986| isbn=978-0-318-21502-0}}</ref>

Bujold writes that her experience growing up with a famous father is reflected in the same experience that her characters (Miles, Fiametta) have of growing up in the shadow of a "[[Great Man theory|Great Man]]".  Having observed this tendency in both genders, she wonders why it is always called "great man's son syndrome", and never "great man's daughter's syndrome."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bujold|first=Lois Mcmaster|title=Young Miles|year=1997|publisher=BAEN|page=830}}</ref> Her brother, an engineer like their father, helped provide technical details to support her writing of ''[[Falling Free]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bujold |first=Lois McMaster |chapter=Foreword |title=Miles, Mutants and Microbes |type=omnibus edition |at=Paragraphs 11 & 13 |year=2007}}</ref>

She has stated that she was always a "voracious reader".<ref name="LMBbiolog">{{Cite web|url=http://dendarii.com/biolog.html|title=Lois McMaster Bujold, Biolog|website=dendarii.com|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2019-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321130416/http://www.dendarii.com/biolog.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She started reading adult science fiction at the age of nine, picking up the habit from her father. She became a member of [[science fiction fandom]], joined the Central Ohio Science Fiction Society, and co-published ''StarDate'', a [[science fiction fanzine]] in which a story of hers appeared under the byline Lois McMaster. Her reading tastes later expanded and she stated she now reads "history, mysteries, romance, travel, war, poetry, etc".<ref name="LMBbiolog" />

She attended [[Ohio State University]] from 1968 to 1972. While she was interested in writing, she didn't pursue an English major, feeling it was too concerned with literary criticism instead of literary creation.<ref name="LMBbiolog" />

She married John Fredric Bujold in 1971, but they divorced in the early 1990s. The marriage produced two children, a daughter named Anne (born 1979) and a son named Paul (born 1981).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dendarii.com/locus.html |title=Locus Lois McMaster Bujold Biography |publisher=Dendarii.com |access-date=2014-01-28 |archive-date=2013-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803145021/http://www.dendarii.com/locus.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Anne Bujold is currently (January 2020) Artist-In-Residence for the Metals Department at the Appalachian Center for Craft, a campus of [[Tennessee Technological University|Tennessee Tech]];<ref>{{cite web |url= https://annebujold.com/ |title= Anne Bujold |last= Bujold |first= Anne |date= 2019-12-26 |website= Rivited [sic] Rabbit Studio |publisher= Anne Bujold |access-date= 2020-03-26 |quote= Bujold is currently the Artist-In-Residence for the Metals Department at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, TN. |archive-date= 2020-03-26 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200326200145/https://annebujold.com/ |url-status= live }}</ref> formerly she was a metal artist and welder in Portland, Oregon<ref>{{cite web |url=https://craftedincarhartt.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/anne-the-riveter-and-her-riveted-rabbit/ |title=Ann the Riveter and her Riveted Rabbit |date=5 June 2014 |publisher=CraftedInCarhartt.com |access-date=2015-12-26 |archive-date=2015-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151130183459/https://craftedincarhartt.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/anne-the-riveter-and-her-riveted-rabbit/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and vice president of the Northwest Blacksmith Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blacksmith.org/wp-content/uploads/NWBADocs/2015-01-24-Board-Meeting-Minutes.pdf |work=Northwest Blacksmith Association |title=January 24, 2015 Regular Board Meeting Minutes |publisher=Northwest Blacksmith Association |date=2015-01-24 |access-date=2020-03-26 |quote=Anne Bujold was named Vice President. |archive-date=2020-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326193948/https://blacksmith.org/wp-content/uploads/NWBADocs/2015-01-24-Board-Meeting-Minutes.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Bujold currently lives in [[Minneapolis|Minneapolis, Minnesota]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectrumliteraryagency.com/loismcmasterbujold|title=Spectrum Literary Agency - Lois McMaster Bujold|website=www.spectrumliteraryagency.com|publisher=Spectrum Literary Agency|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2019-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224031639/http://www.spectrumliteraryagency.com/bujold.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Inspiration==
Bujold had been friends with [[Lillian Stewart Carl]] since high school, where they "collaborated on extended story lines [but where] only a fragment of the total was written out.".<ref name="LMBbiolog"/> At one point, she even co-produced a ''[[Star Trek]]'' zine called ''StarDate''<ref name="fan_fiction_essay" /> which she wrote for. In college, she wrote a Sherlock Holmes mystery as well.<ref name="fan_fiction_essay" /> However, she stopped writing after that, being busy with marriage, family, and a career in hospital patient care.<ref name="amazingstories">{{Cite web|url=https://amazingstories.com/2013/07/interview-with-award-winning-author-lois-mcmaster-bujold/|title=Interview with Award-Winning Author Lois McMaster Bujold|date=2013-07-03|website=Amazing Stories|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2020-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919021849/https://amazingstories.com/2013/07/interview-with-award-winning-author-lois-mcmaster-bujold/|url-status=live}}</ref>

It wasn't until her thirties<ref name="amazingstories"/> that she returned to writing. Bujold has credited her friend Lillian Stewart Carl's first book sales with inspiring her to return to the field: "it occurred to me that if she could do it, I could do it too."<ref name="LMBbiolog"/> She originally planned to write as a hobby again, but discovered the amount of work required was too much for anything other than a profession, so she decided to turn professional.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kemper |first1=Bart |title=Dancing on the edge |journal=Writer's Digest |date=July 1994 |volume=74 |issue=7 |pages=6–7}}</ref> With support from Carl and [[Patricia Wrede]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dearauthor.com/features/interviews/my-first-sale-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold-she-got-by-with-a-little-help-from-her-friends/|title=My First Sale by Lois McMaster Bujold, She Got By with a Little Help From Her Friends|date=2008-04-25|website=Dear Author|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2020-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918133035/https://dearauthor.com/features/interviews/my-first-sale-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold-she-got-by-with-a-little-help-from-her-friends/|url-status=live}}</ref> she was able to complete her first novel.

==Science fiction==
Lois Bujold wrote three books (''[[Shards of Honor]]'', ''[[The Warrior's Apprentice]]'' and ''[[Ethan of Athos]]'') before ''The Warrior's Apprentice'' was finally accepted, after four rejections. ''The Warrior's Apprentice'' was the first book purchased, though not the first Vorkosigan book written, nor would it be the first one to be published. On the strength of ''The Warrior's Apprentice'', [[Baen Books]] agreed to a three-book deal to include the two bracketing novels. By 2010, Baen Books claimed to have sold two million copies of Bujold's books.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bujold_interview/| title=A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold| author=Jeremy L. C. Jones| magazine=[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]| access-date=2012-04-01| archive-date=2011-09-18| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110918115842/http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bujold_interview/| url-status=live}}</ref>

Bujold is best known for her [[Vorkosigan Saga]], a series of novels featuring [[Miles Vorkosigan]], a physically impaired interstellar [[spy]] and [[mercenary]] admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in the future. The series also includes prequels starring Miles' parents, along with companion novels centered on secondary characters. Earlier titles are generally firmly in the [[space opera]] tradition with no shortage of battles, conspiracies, and wild twists, while in more recent volumes, Miles becomes more of a [[detective fiction|detective]]. In ''[[A Civil Campaign]]'', Bujold explores yet another genre: a [[High society|high-society]] romance with a plot that pays tribute to [[Regency romance]] novelist [[Georgette Heyer]] (as acknowledged in the dedication). It centers on a catastrophic dinner party, with misunderstandings and dialogue justifying the subtitle "A Comedy of Biology and Manners".

The author has stated that the series structure is modeled after the [[Horatio Hornblower]] books, documenting the life of a single person. In themes and echoes, they also reflect [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' mystery character [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]. Bujold has also said that part of the challenge of writing a series is that many readers will encounter the stories in "utterly random order", so she must provide sufficient background in each of them without being excessively repetitious. Most recent printings of her Vorkosigan tales do include an appendix at the end of each book, summarizing the internal chronology of the series.

Bujold has discussed her own views on the optimum reading order for the Vorkosigan series in her blog.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.dendarii.com/reading_order.html| title=The chef recommends| author=Lois McMaster Bujold| access-date=2015-09-23| archive-date=2015-09-23| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923213525/http://www.dendarii.com/reading_order.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

==Fantasy==
Bujold also wanted to break into the fantasy genre, but met with early setbacks. Her first foray into fantasy was ''[[The Spirit Ring]]''. She wrote the book "on spec", shopped it around, and found low offers, sending her back to [[Baen Books]], where [[Jim Baen]] bought it for a fair price in exchange for the promise of more Vorkosigan books. Bujold called this experience very educational; the book received little critical acclaim, and had only mediocre sales.

She would not attempt to break into the fantasy market again for almost another decade, with ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]''. This book was also written on spec and offered up to a book auction. This time, she met with considerable critical and commercial success by tapping into a crossover market of fantasy and romance genre fans. The fantasy world of [[Chalion]] was first conceived as a result of a [[University of Minnesota]] course she was taking about [[Spain in the Middle Ages|medieval Spain]] in her spare time. She would eventually expand the setting into the ''[[World of the Five Gods]]'' series, including ''Paladin of Souls'', ''The Hallowed Hunt'', and the sixteen novels, novellas, and short stories of the Penric and Desdemona series.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/series/183152-penric-and-desdemona-publication-order|title=Penric and Desdemona (Publication order) Series by Lois McMaster Bujold}}</ref>

The next fantasy world she created was the [[tetralogy]] set in the universe of ''[[The Sharing Knife]]'', borrowing inspiration for its landscapes and for the dialect of the "farmers" from ones she grew up with in central Ohio.<ref name="essays">{{cite book |last1=Lennard |first1=John |title=Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy |chapter=(Absent) Gods and Sharing Knives|editor1-last=Croft|editor1-first=Janet Brennan|date=2013 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=978-0-7864-6833-1 |pages=183–184}}</ref> She writes that her first readers who helped proofread it said she got it exactly right and they could recognize Ohio features in the descriptions and [[dialect]]s.

== Relation to fan fiction ==
Bujold has generally been supportive of [[fan fiction]] written about her characters and universe. Amy H. Sturgis, in her essay "From Both Sides Now: Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon",<ref name="fan_fiction_essay">{{cite book |last1=Sturgis|first1=Amy H.|title=Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy |chapter=From Both Sides Now: Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon|editor1-last=Croft|editor1-first=Janet Brennan|date=2013 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-6833-1 |pages=16–25}}</ref> notes that this is unusual for writers of Bujold's generation, most of whom are opposed to fan fiction. Sturgis relates this to Bujold's own production of ''[[Star Trek]]'' and [[Sherlock Holmes]] fan fiction early in her life, which Sturgis saw as an apprenticeship for her professional writing career.

Bujold herself ties her appreciation of fan fiction to her appreciation of "active" readers. To her, good readers are the "unsung collaborators" who make the story work, by actually constructing the world and characters in their heads. Books, to her, don't actually exist until they enter the reader's head and grow there. And sometimes, the characters and stories in a book grow so much that they escape the writer's original confines and become fan fiction. To Bujold, great literature is never "sterile", stopping with only what the original author wrote.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sidelines: Talks and Essays|last=Bujold|first=Lois McMaster|year=2013|chapter=The Unsung Collaborator}}</ref> She further believes that fan fiction gives authors a unique chance to see into the minds of those "invisible collaborators", the readers.<ref name="sidelines_fan_fiction">{{Cite book|title=Sidelines: Talks and Essays|last=Bujold|first=Lois McMaster|year=2013|chapter='Here's Looking At You, Kid...': On Fan Fiction}}</ref>

Despite this, she no longer reads fan fiction about her own characters due to legal and financial concerns, "fascinating as [she] finds it".<ref name="sidelines_fan_fiction" />

==Awards and nominations==
{| class="wikitable" style="border: none; font-size: 90%"
| {{won| {{spaces|1}} W {{spaces|1}} }} || style="border: none" | Won 
| style="border: none"|
| {{nom| {{spaces|1}} N {{spaces|1}} }} || style="border: none" | Nominated
|}
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align: center; border: none"
! rowspan=2 | Series
! rowspan=2 | Book
! colspan=3 | Award<ref name=SFADB>{{cite web |title=Lois McMaster Bujold Awards |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Lois_McMaster_Bujold |website=[[Science Fiction Awards Database]] |publisher=Locus Science Fiction Foundation |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531020114/http://www.sfadb.com/Lois_McMaster_Bujold |archive-date=May 31, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Hugo Award|Hugo]]
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Locus Award|Locus]]
! style="min-width: 4em" | [[Nebula Award|Nebula]] 
|-
! scope=row rowspan=10 | ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Vorkosigan<br/> Saga]]''
! scope=row | ''[[Falling Free]]'' (1988)
| {{nom|N}}  || – ||  {{won|W}}
|-
! scope=row | ''[[The Vor Game]]'' (1990)
| {{won|W}} || {{nom|N}}  || – 
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Barrayar]]'' (1991)
| {{won|W}} || {{won|W}}  || {{nom|N}} 
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Mirror Dance]]'' (1994)
| {{won|W}} || {{won|W}} || – 
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Memory (Bujold novel)|Memory]]'' (1996)
| {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}}  
|-
! scope=row | ''[[A Civil Campaign]]'' (1999)
| {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}} 
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Diplomatic Immunity (novel)|Diplomatic Immunity]]'' (2002)
| – || – || {{nom|N}}  
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Cryoburn]]'' (2010)
| {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}}  || – 
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Captain Vorpatril's Alliance]]'' (2012)
| {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}} || – 
|-
! scope=row | As a series
| {{won|W}}  || – || –
|-
! scope=row rowspan=4 | ''[[World of the Five Gods|World of the<br/> Five Gods]]''
! scope=row | ''[[The Curse of Chalion]]'' (2001)
| {{nom|N}} || {{nom|N}}  || – 
|-
! scope=row | ''[[Paladin of Souls]]'' (2003)
| {{won|W}} || {{won|W}} || {{won|W}}
|-
! scope=row | ''[[The Hallowed Hunt]]'' (2005)
| –  || {{nom|N}} || –
|-
! scope=row | As a series
| {{won|W}}  || – || –
|}

Bujold has also received the following accolades:

* [[Astounding Award for Best New Writer|John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer]]: Nominated (1987)
* "[[The Mountains of Mourning]]" (1990) won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novella.
* ''[[Komarr]]'' (1999) won the [[Minnesota Book Awards|Minnesota Book Award]].<ref>{{cite web| url=https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/| title=Minnesota Book Award Winners & Finalists| author=The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library| access-date=2019-03-09| archive-date=2019-12-17| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217223331/https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/| url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''[[A Civil Campaign]]'' (2000) and ''[[Paladin of Souls]]'' (2004) were nominated for the [[Minnesota Book Awards|Minnesota Book Award]].
* "[[Vorkosigan Saga#"Winterfair Gifts" (novella)|Winterfair Gifts]]" (2005), ''[[List of works by Lois McMaster Bujold#Chalion series|Penric's Demon]]'' (2016) and ''[[List of works by Lois McMaster Bujold#Chalion series|Penric and the Shaman]]'' (2017) were nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novella.
* Forry Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of Science Fiction: Won (2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=Forry Award |url=http://www.lasfsinc.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=175 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225214252/http://www.lasfsinc.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=175 |archive-date=2013-12-25 |access-date=2013-10-15 |work=[[Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society]]}}</ref>
* [[Prometheus Award|Prometheus Hall of Fame award for Best Classic Fiction]] (2014) for ''Falling Free''<ref>{{cite web | title=Libertarian Futurist Society | website=[[Libertarian Futurist Society]] | url=http://www.lfs.org/awards.shtml | access-date=April 20, 2021 | archive-date=May 1, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501021257/http://www.lfs.org/awards.shtml | url-status=live }}</ref> 
* SFWA [[Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award]] (2020)<ref  name="SFWAGM" />

==List of works==
{{main|Lois McMaster Bujold bibliography}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=SFE>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bujold_lois_mcmaster |title=Bujold, Lois McMaster |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126171457/http://sf-encyclopedia.com/Entry/bujold_lois_mcmaster |archive-date=2021-01-26 |encyclopedia=[[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]] |publisher=Gollancz |display-editors=2 |editor-last=Clute |editor-first=John |editor-link=John Clute |editor2-last=Langford |editor2-first=David |editor2-link=David Langford |editor3-last=Nicholls |editor3-first=Peter (emeritus) |editor3-link=Peter Nicholls (writer) |editor4-last=Sleight |editor4-first=Graham (managing) |editor4-link=Graham Sleight |edition=3rd |access-date=2021-08-07 |url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
* {{Cite web
 |author = Bujold, Lois McMaster
 |date = April 25, 2008
 |title = My First Sale by Lois McMaster Bujold: She Got by with a Little Help from Her Friends
 |url = http://dearauthor.com/features/interviews/my-first-sale-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold-she-got-by-with-a-little-help-from-her-friends/
 |archive-date = April 2, 2015
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165657/http://dearauthor.com/features/interviews/my-first-sale-by-lois-mcmaster-bujold-she-got-by-with-a-little-help-from-her-friends/
 |url-status = dead
 |website = Dear Author
 |access-date = March 9, 2015
 }}
* {{Cite book
 | last1 = Carl
 | first1 = Lillian Stewart
 | last2 = Helfers
 | first2 = John
 | title = The Vorkosigan Companion: The Universe of Lois McMaster Bujold
 | year = 2008
 | publisher = Baen Books
 | location = Riverdale, NY
 | isbn = 978-1-4165-5603-9
 | url-access = registration
 | url = https://archive.org/details/vorkosigancompan00
 }}
* {{Cite book
 | editor = Janet Brennan Croft
 | title = Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy
 | year = 2013
 | publisher = McFarland & Co.
 | location = Jefferson, NC
 | isbn = 978-0-7864-6833-1
 }}
* {{Cite journal
 | last = Haehl   | first =Anne L.
 | title = Miles Vorkosigan and the Power of Words: A Study of Lois McMaster Bujold's Unlikely Hero
 | journal = Extrapolation
 | publisher = Kent State University Press
 | volume = 37
 | issue = 3
 | pages = 224–233
 | date = Fall 1996
 | doi = 10.3828/extr.1996.37.3.224
 | issn = 0014-5483
 }}
* {{Cite book
 | last = James
 | first = Edward
 | title = Lois McMaster Bujold (Modern Masters of Science Fiction)
 | year = 2015
 | publisher = University of Illinois Press
 | location = Champaign, IL
 | isbn = 978-0-252-08085-2
 }}
* {{Cite journal
 | last = Kelso
 | first = Sylvia
 | title = Lois McMaster Bujold: Feminism and 'The Gernsback Continuum' in Recent Women's SF
 | journal = Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 
 | volume = 10
 | issue = 1 [37]
 | pages = 17–29
 | date = Winter 1998
 | issn = 0897-0521
 }}
* {{Cite book
 | last = Kelso
 | first = Sylvia
 | editor = Sylvia Kelso
 | title = Three Observations and a Dialogue: Round and About SF
 | year = 2009
 | publisher = Aqueduct Press
 | location = Seattle
 | isbn = 978-1-933500-28-7
 | chapter = Loud Achievements: Lois McMaster Bujold's Science Fiction
 | oclc = 430954881
 }}
* {{Cite book
 | last = Lennard
 | first = John
 | editor = John Lennard
 | title = Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction
 | year = 2010
 | publisher = Humanities-Ebooks
 | location = Tirril, Cumbria, UK
 | isbn = 978-1-84760-171-1
 | pages = 70–111
 | chapter = Of Marriage and Mutations: Lois McMaster Bujold and the Several Lives of Miles Naismith Vorkosigan
 }}
* {{Cite journal
 | last = Lindow
 | first = Sandra J.
 | title = The Influence of Family and Moral Development in Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Series
 | journal = Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
 | volume = 30
 | issue = 83
 | pages = 25–34
 | date = Autumn 2001
 | issn = 0306-4964
 }}
* {{Cite journal
 | last1 = Nelms
 | first1 = Ben F.   
 | last2 = Strickland   | first2 = Diane
 | last3 = Slusser  | first3 = Linda S.
 | last4 = O'Neil  | first4 = James Francis
 | last5 = Tyson  | first5 = Edith S.
 | last6 = Wehmann  | first6 = Claudia J.
 | last7 = King  | first7 = Richard L.
 | title = Favorite Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy
 | department = Booksearch
 | journal = English Journal
 | publisher = National Council of Teachers of English
 | volume = 82
 | issue = 6
 | pages = 83–85
 | date = October 1993
 | doi = 10.2307/820174
 | jstor = 820174
 }}
* {{Cite book
 | last = Wehrmann 
 | first = Jürgen
 | year = 2007
 | chapter = Jane Eyre in Outer Space: Victorian Motifs in Post-Feminist Science Fiction
 | editor = Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann
 | title = A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre
 | publisher = Rodopi
 | location = Amsterdam, Netherlands
 | isbn = 978-90-420-2212-6
 | pages = 149–165
 | oclc = 144615405
 }}
* {{Cite thesis
 | first = Regina
 | last = Yung
 | title = Reading Her Machine Flesh: Permutations of the Cyborg Body
 | url = https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/fb4edd4a-4472-4d96-a320-283e8ecdf126
 | publisher = University of Alberta (Canada)
 | date = 2007
 | degree = M.A.
 | doi = 10.7939/r3-mky8-bh63
 | oclc=261212307
 }}
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== External links ==
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* {{official website |dendarii.com }}
* [http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/bujold_interview/ Interview] by ''[[Clarkesworld Magazine]]'' (November 2010)
* [http://www.ibdof.com/viewforum.php?f=1811 Official forum] (to which the author regularly contributes) at [[IBDoF]]
* [https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/The_Chef_Recommends Bujold Reading-Order Guide], by the author. Updated mid-2022
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* {{IBList|type=author|id=331|name=Lois McMaster Bujold}}
* [http://www.lillianstewartcarl.com/b.vorkosigan.html Lillian Stewart Carl's web page, where the ''Vorkosigan Companion''] is discussed
* [http://dendarii.com/accc.html A Reader's Companion to ''A Civil Campaign'']—Compiled by members of the Bujold chat-list and freely available at the Bujold Nexus

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