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2 Preface 1 LOI.S MCMASTER BUJOLD Part One: Creator of the Vorkosiverse Putting It Together: Life, the Vorkosiverse, and Everything 5 LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A Conversation with Lois McMaster Bujold 29 LILLIAN STEWART CARL Publishing, Writing, and Authoring: Three Different Things 63 LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A Conversation with Toni Weisskopf 77 JOHN HELFERS Part Two: Aspects of the Vorkosiverse Romance in the Vorkosiverse 85 MARY JO PUTNEY Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today 91 TORA K. SMULDERS-SRINIVASAN, PH.D. "What's the Worst Thing I Can Do to This Character?": Technology in the Vorkosiverse 103 ED BURKHEAD Part Three: Appreciations Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold, or Thank You, but I Already Have a Life 121 LILLIAN STEWART CARL Foreword to Falling Free 129 JAMES A. MCMASTER

3 vi CONTENTS Foreword to Shards of Honor 141 JAMES BRYANT More Than the Sum of His Parts: Foreword to The Warrior's Apprentice 145 DOUGLAS MUIR Foreword to Ethan of Athos 149 MARNA NIGHTINGALE Part Four: The Fans Come for the Bujold, Stay for the Beer: Science Fiction Writers as Occasions of Fandom 159 MARNA NIGHTINGALE Part Five: The Vorkosiverse Itself A Pronunciation Guide to the Vorkosigan Saga 169 An Old Earther's Guide to the Vorkosigan Universe 199 DENISE LITTLE The Vorkosigan Saga Novel Summaries 213 JOHN HELFERS The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance 245 KERRIE HUGHES, JOHN HELFERS, AND ED BURKHEAD Appendix I: A Map of the Vorkosigan Universe Topology of the Wormhole Nexus 452 CRYSTAL CARROLL AND Appendix II: Timelines of the Vorkosigan Saga Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith 454 Timelines 458 Appendix III: A Brief Guide to Barrayaran Genealogy Some Barrayaran Genealogy 460

4 Preface copyright 2008 by Lois McMaster Bujold. "Putting It Together: Life, the Vorkosiverse, and Everything," copyright 2008 by Lois McMaster Bujold. "A Conversation with Lois McMaster Bujold" copyright 2008 by Lillian Stewart Carl. "Publishing, Writing, and Authoring: Three Different Things," copyright 2008 by Lois McMaster Bujold. "A Conversation with Toni Weisskopf," copyright 2008 by John Heifers. "Romance in the Vorkosiverse," copyright 2008 by Mary Jo Putney. "Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today," copyright 2008 by Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan. " 'What's the Worst Thing I Can Do to This Character?': Technology in the Vorkosiverse," copyright 2008 by Ed Burkhead. "Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold, or Thank You, but I Already Have a Life," copyright 2008 by Lillian Stewart Carl. "Foreword to Falling Free" copyright 2004 by James A. McMaster. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Foreword to Shards of Honor" copyright 2000 by James Bryant. Reprinted by permission of the author. "More Than the Sum of His Parts: Foreword to The Warrior's Apprentice" copyright 2002 by Douglas Muir. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Foreword to Ethan of Athos" copyright 2003, revised version copyright 2009 by Marna Nightingale. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Come for the Bujold, Stay for the Beer: Science Fiction Writers as Occasions of Fandom," copyright 2008 by Marna Nightingale. Vll

5 viii. COPYRIGHTS "A Pronunciation Guide to the Vorkosigan Saga," copyright 2008 by Suford Lewis. Revised from "A Pronunciation Guide to Names and Places," copyright 2001, 2000, 1996 by Suford Lewis. "An Old Earthers Guide to the Vorkosigan Universe," copyright 2008 by Denise Little. "The Vorkosigan Saga Novel Summaries" copyright 2008 by John Heifers. "The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance," copyright 2008 by Kerrie Hughes, John Heifers, and Ed Burkhead. "Topology of the Wormhole Nexus," copyright 2008 by Crystal Carroll and Suford Lewis. Revised from "Galactic Tourist Bureau Map" copyright 1999 by Crystal Carroll. "Timelines: 800 Years in Barrayaran and Galactic Human History; 60 Years in Barrayaran and Galactic Human History," copyright 2008, 2001, 2000, 1996 by Suford Lewis. "Some Barrayaran Genealogy," copyright 2008, 2001 by Suford Lewis. Revised from "Towards a Genealogy of Lord Miles Vorkosigan and Other Persons of Interest," copyright 2000, 1996 by Suford Lewis.

THE VORKOSIGAN COMPANION Lillian Stewart Carl, and John Helfers

THE VORKOSIGAN COMPANION Lillian Stewart Carl, and John Helfers This is a reference work about works of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance