"Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and STYLE!"
—Anne McCaffrey

Komarr—Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course, and Miles has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage. But once there, he uncovers a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever—and discovers an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.

A Civil Campaign—On Komarr, Miles met the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who has no intention of getting married after the heartbreak and betrayal of her first experience. But Miles has a cunning plan to change her mind. Unfortunately his clone-brother Mark and his cousin Ivan have cunning plans of their own, and the three- way collision of cunning plans threatens to undo Miles's brilliant romantic strategy.

"Winterfair Gifts"—Miles and Ekaterin make elaborate preparations for their wedding. But Miles has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death.

"Bujold continues to prove what marvels genius can create out of basic space operatics."—Booklist

Publisher's Note: Contains two full length novels and a novella, together in one volume for the first time.

by Lois McMaster Bujold

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Pyramid Power

by Dave Freer and Eric Flint

Miles, Mutants and Microbes

by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Trouble With Humans

by Christopher Anvil
edited by Eric Flint

In Fury Born

by David Weber

Blood of the Heroes

by Steve White

Memory

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Miles Among Mutants

So what if he's a squat, malformed, weak-boned royal outcast Miles Vorkosigan's hyperactive intellect and relentless drive wins through time and again to save the day for the Empire that rejected him. PLUS: You are the perfect spacer—engineered for freefall in body, mind and soul. But now the work's done and you're slated to be genocidally wiped from existence. Are you human enough to resist Hell, yeah!

Here in one masterly volume set in the "Vorkosigan" universe: the science fiction classic and Nebula-award-winning Falling Free, plus two Miles Vorkosigan tales of derring-do, droll wit, and dynamic world-building spun by the multiple Hugo- and Nebula-winning Doyenne of Modern Space Opera, Lois McMaster Bujold!

Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard.

At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the planet of Jackson's Whole, while rescuing his brother. Thanks to quick thinking on the part of his staff, and incredible artistry on the part of the specialist who revived him, his first death won't be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling.

Even after he returns to military duty, his late death seems to be having a greater effect than he's willing to admit. Unfortunately, his weakness reveals itself to the world at large at just the wrong time and in just the wrong way, and Miles is summoned home to face Barrayaran security chief Simon Illyan. But when things begin to go subtly wrong in Imperial Security itself, "Who shall guard the guardians " becomes a more-than-rhetorical question, with a potentially lethal answer.

Things look bad, but they are far worse than Miles imagines, as he discovers his worst nightmares about Simon Illyan don't compare to Illyan's worst nightmares—or are they memories

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the SF world in 1986 with the first of the Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor, closely followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, which introduced the physically handicapped military genius Miles Vorkosigan. She has won an unprecedented four Hugo Awards for works in the Vorkosigan Saga. Last year's Hugo winner, Mirror Dance, was released in paperback in March 1995. Bujold has published a dozen novels to date, all with Baen Books. The mother of two, Bujold lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Listen to the author discuss the book on the Baen Free Radio Hour: Part 1 | Part 2.

Truth and Consequences

A covert ops liberation of Barrayaran allies in a Cetagandan POW camp goes awry and Miles Naismith is right in the middle of it. Will he find damnation though good works, or faith alone

Still reeling from the prior mission, the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet puts in at old Earth for repairs—and finds old enemies. Miles's attempt to juggle both his identities, Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan, crashes when a new player enters the game: the brother he never knew he had.

Two years later, on the crime planet of Jackson's Whole, disaster gets a new name: Mark Pierre Vorkosigan. Another rescue, of clone children scheduled to be murdered for their bodies, goes seriously sour. This time, the consequences look fatal and permanent—unless two brothers can each learn the other's true names and games.

"Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and STYLE! . . . [Komarr] has twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel. . . . Boy, can she write!" —Anne McCaffrey

"Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development. . . enormously satisfying." —Publishers Weekly

". . . an outstanding series." —Booklist

MILES VORKOSIGAN TIMES THREE
EQUALS ENTERTAINMENT,
EXCITEMENT & EXCELLENCE

Diplomat, soldier, spy-Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayaran Empire, a.k.a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts.

Miles and his handsome cousin Ivan are called upon to play a simple diplomatic role on the capital world of Barrayar's old enemy until murder and deceit thrust them into Cetagandan internal politics at the highest levels, and Miles discovers the secrets of the haut-women's biological domain to be very complicated indeed.

Commander Elli Quinn, sent by Miles on the trail of those secrets, meets a man who marches to the beat of a very different drummer. Dr. Ethan Urquhart, obstretician from a planet forbidden to women, is on a quest at cross-purposes to Elli's mission - or is it

Consequences of Cetagandan bioengineering continue to play out, this time on a Dendrii sortie to the crime planet of Jackson's Whole. When he encounters a genetically altered super-soldier, Miles's routine rescue strike takes a sudden hard turn for the unanticipated.

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Mad Maudlin

by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

Man-Kzin Wars X: The Wunder War

by Larry Niven and Hal Colebatch

Miles, Mystery and Mayhem

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Miles Errant

by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Shiva Option

by David Weber and Steve White

Warlock

by Andre Norton

IT ISN'T EASY, BEING VOR...

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), Miles'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 interstellar invasion, and rescued the Barrayaran Emperor. Then things get interesting....

". . . wit, style, versatility. . ."—Locus

"... all the 'right stuff.' "—Science Fiction Review

"Highly recommended."—Fantasy Review

". . . extraordinary . . . deserving of the highest recommendation."—Booklist

". . . superb . . . one of the great voices of speculative fiction."—Rave Reviews

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The War With Earth

by Leo Frankowski and Dave Grossman

One Foot in the Grave

by William Mark Simmons

Young Miles

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Cordelia's Honor

by Lois McMaster Bujold

1633

by Eric Flint and David Weber

Man-Kzin Wars IX

by Larry Niven

Wiz Combo II: Cursed and Consulted

by Rick Cook

When Enemies Become More than Friends—
THEY WIN

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 occasion ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral 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 would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy.

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The Anguished Dawn

by James P. Hogan

Dead On My Feet

by William Mark Simmons

Forge of the Titans

by Steve White

The Adventures of Myhr

by P. N. Elrod

Diplomatic Immunity

by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Amazing Dr. Darwin

by Charles Sheffield

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Diplomatic Immunity

by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Warmasters

by David Weber, Eric Flint and David Drake

March Upcountry

by David Weber and John Ringo

The Warslayer

by Rosemary Edghill

The Lighter Side

by Keith Laumer
edited by Eric Flint

Accident or Treachery

Komarr could be a garden-with a thousand more years work. or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest Imperial Auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why.

The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. In the political and physical claustrophobia of the domed cities, are the Komarrans surrounding Miles loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels bidding for revenge

Lies within lies, treachery within treachery-Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.

THE CLONED STRANGERS

Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother was the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who has taught the Lords of Barrayar much about the perils of sexism. Even the fact that Miles is third in line to the throne and personally owns a major chunk of his home planet would not tempt any normal person to change places with him.

When assassins came to rid the world of his father, his mother, pregnant with Miles, was in the line of fire, and Miles was but an egg for the omelet in an all too literal sense. Thanks to heroic medical intervention, Miles survived his near fatal brush with war gas-as a pain-filled dwarf with bones as weak and brittle as some malign composite of chalk and glass. Miles is often mistaken for a mutant by his mutant loathing countrymen.

But there is one who does envy him, who wants to be him: his brother, his cloned stranger formed from tissue stolen from Miles when he was a child. For Mark Vorkosigan was created and raised up for only one purpose: to become Miles, to murder and replace him. In Brothers in Arms that conspiracy was routed and Mark made more or less compliant to his new Miles-less fate. But in the intervening years Mark has learned that without Miles he is . . . nothing. The new and better Mark doesn't really want to kill his brother, but still it may come to that: Mark to stay, Miles to go. . . .

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Spirits White as Lightning

by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

Beyond World's End

by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

Mirror Dance

by Lois McMaster Bujold

Komarr

by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Independent Command

by James Doohan and S. M. Stirling

The Rising

by James Doohan and S. M. Stirling

A COMEDY OF TERRORS . . .

A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. 

Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. 

The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back . . .

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor, closely followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, which introduced Miles Vorkosigan, the hyperkinetic military genius with bones of glass. She has won an unprecedented four Hugo Awards for works in the Vorkosigan Saga. Bujold has published sixteen novels to date, all but one with Baen Books. The mother of two, Bujold lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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A Civil Campaign

by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Grand Tour

by Jody Lynn Nye

Realtime Interrupt

by James P. Hogan

ONE CUNNING PLAN TOO MANY. . .

 It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love . . .

. . . money . . . bio-genetics . . . love . . . lack of money . . . incompatible planetary sexual mores . . . love . . . District succession scandals . . . the Emperor's wedding . . . and, of course, love . . . 

Lord Miles Vorkosigan, youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time of Isolation, has a problem all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson.  Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure.  But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won't do, go to subterfuge.  He has a cunning plan . . .

Lord Mark Vorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of Commodore Koudelka, has just become unrequited again.  But if all his new money can't solve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurial scheming might.  He has a cunning plan . . .

"It's another winner with all kinds of unexpected adventures . . . Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue and STYLE! A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could only happen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel. . . . Boy, can she write!" 
—Anne McCaffrey

"Bujold successfully mixes quirky humor with just enough action, a dab of feminist social commentary and her usual superb character development in a sprightly SF romance . . . enormously satisfying." 
—Publishers Weekly