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Lois McMaster Bujold (Boo-jhold), born November 2, , in Columbus, Ohio, is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works. Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times.&#; Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo and Nebula Award. In the fantasy sphere, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo and second Nebula were for Paladin of Souls. &#;In , her Vorkosigan Saga received the inaugural Hugo Award for Best Series, and in , her fantasy series The World of the Five Gods won the second.&#; In , Bujold was named the 36th Damon Knight Memorial Grandmaster by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organization.&#; Her full awards bibliography may be read here.
Bujold is best known for her series of novels featuring Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, a physic
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Flying Ponies: A Conversation with Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold has won the Hugo Award for Best Novel a record-tying four times: The Vor Game in ; Barrayar in , which also won a Locus Award; Mirror Dance in , which, again, also won a Locus Award; and Paladin of Souls in , which also won a Nebula Award and a Locus Award.
As notable as this is, making history is just one of many accolades Bujold has accrued over a decades-long career.
Bujold started reading at a young age and dabbled in writing as early as junior high. Years later, seeing her friend Lillian Stewart Carl sell work, Bujold decided to make a serious effort of it. She brought her array of interests into her fiction: biology, ecology, and more. Her career as a novelist launched in with Baen Books publications Shards of Honor, The Warrior’s Apprentice, and Ethan of Athos. Her fourth novel, Falling Free, was originally serialized in four parts in Analog beginning December , then republis
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( ) US author who began publishing sf with "Barter" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, March/April Almost all her published sf work fryst vatten part of a loose series of often humorous adventures set in a future of feuding galactic colonies connected by Faster-than-Light "Wormhole jumps". Most of these stories feature members of the Vorkosigan family, part of an elite military caste from the planet Barrayar, recently rediscovered by galactic civilization after regressing into semifeudalism. Shards of Honor () and its immediate sequel Barrayar (July-October Analog; ) which won a Hugo, deal with the romance between Lord Aral Vorkosigan and the sophisticated off-worlder Cordelia Naismith; the child of their marriage is Miles Vorkosigan, born with severe physical handicaps due to a politically inspired attempt to Poison his father. Miles grows up to become a supremely charismatic, witty, compulsively drive