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The Vorkosigan Companion

Table of Contents

Preface

Lois McMaster Bujold

Part 1:
Creator of the Vorkosiverse

Putting It Together:
Life, the Vorkosiverse, and Everything

Lois McMaster Bujold

A Conversation with Lois McMaster Bujold

Lillian Stewart Carl

Publishing, Writing, and Authoring:
Three Different Things

Lois McMaster Bujold

A Conversation with
Toni Weisskopf

John Helfers

Part 2: Aspects of the Vorkosiverse

Romance in the Vorkosiverse

Mary Jo Putney

Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today

Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan

"What's the Worst Thing
I Can Do to This Character?"
Technology of the Vorkosiverse

Ed Burkhead

Part 3: Appreciations

Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold, or Thank You, but I Already Have a Life

Lillian Stewart Carl

Foreword to Falling Free

James A. McMaster

Foreword to Shards of Honor

James Bryant

"More Than the Sum of His Parts"
Foreword to The Warrior's Apprentice

Douglas Muir

Foreword to Ethan of Athos

Marna Nightingale

Part 4: The Fans

Come for the Bujold, Stay for the Beer^¹:
Science Fiction Writers
as Occasions of Fandom

Marna Nightingale

Part 5: The Vorkosiverse Itself

A Pronunciation Guide
to the Vorkosigan Universe

Suford Lewis

An Old Earther's Guide
to the Vorkosigan Universe

Denise Little

The Vorkosigan Saga Novel Summaries

John Helfers

The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance

Kerrie Hughes, John Helfers, and Ed Burkhead

Appendices

Appendix I
A Map of the Vorkosigan Universe
Topology of the Wormhole Nexus

Crystal Carroll and Suford Lewis

Appendix III
A Brief Guide to Barrayaran Genealogy
Some Barrayaran Genealogy

Suford Lewis

About the Author of the Vorkosigan Saga

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