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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 to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Copyright @ 2008 by Tekno Books, Lillian Stewart Carl, and John Helfers. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471 www.baen.com ISBN 10: 1-4165-5603-6 ISBN 13: 978-1-4165-5603-9 Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet First printing, December 2008 Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Vorkosigan companion / edited by Lillian Stewart Carl and John Helfers. p. cm. ISBN 1-4165-5603-6 1. Bujold, Lois McMaster—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Vorkosigan, Miles (Fictitious character)—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Science fiction, American—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Carl, Lillian Stewart. II. Helfers, John. PS3552.U397Z95 2009 813'.54—dc22 2008032556 Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com) Printed in the United States of America Copyrights 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 Helfers. "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. "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 Earther's Guide to the Vorkosigan Universe," copyright © 2008 by Denise Little. "The Vorkosigan Saga Novel Summaries," copyright © 2008 by John Helfers. "The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance," copyright © 2008 by Kerrie Hughes, John Helfers, 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. BAEN BOOKS by LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD The Vorkosigan Saga: Shards of Honor Barrayar The Warrior's Apprentice The Vor Game Cetaganda Borders of Infinity Brothers in Arms Mirror Dance Memory Komarr A Civil Campaign Diplomatic Immunity Falling Free Ethan of Athos Omnibus Editions: Cordelia's Honor Young Miles Miles, Mystery & Mayhem Miles Errant Miles, Mutants & Microbes Miles in Love Preface "Gosh, is it midnight already?" There are many memorable firsts in a writer's career. First story started—first finished. First submission. First rejection. First sale! First review, good/bad. First public speech about one's writing, urk. First fan letter! First time meeting one's editor face-to-face. First award nomination—first win! Maybe, a first film option. First time on a genre best-seller list—first time on a general best-seller list, though this is a much rarer prize. First career award—what, already? but I'm not finished yet! First book about one's books. I'm not just sure where we've arrived, but we're definitely here. Head down and pedaling as hard as possible, it's not often that working writers have a chance to look back and see just how far they've traveled. Much of my biography and literary biography are covered in the articles and interview that follow, so I won't linger to recap it all here. But in this year, 2007, and in 2008 upcoming, have fallen a couple of firsts that force me to pause and put it in perspective. My first career award came last month from the Ohioana Library Association. Literary awards generally, by nature intrinsically subjective, are mysterious gifts bestowed upon writers; it is something done to us, not something—like finishing a novel—that we do. Career awards seem to be awards for winning awards, a suspicious circularity. (That said, this year's Ohioana memento takes the prize for being the prettiest ever, a gorgeous piece of art glass looking like a transparent blue jellyfish. Lead glass apparently looks extremely strange on airport X-ray machines, however. Someone could write a whole essay on the sometimes-deadly designs of the various awards and the challenges of getting them home.) Next year, as I write this (though it will be a done deal by the time this book is published) I have been invited to be Writer Guest of Honor at the 2008 World Science Fiction Convention in Denver, Colorado, which is very much a career award in its own right. I put pencil to paper for my first science fiction novel in 1982; from there to this in a mere twenty-six years. Seems . fast. Writing stories, using words to sculpt other people's thoughts, would appear to be the most evanescent of arts. Writers make and sell dreams; the vast publishing industry that conveys those dreams between the writer's head and the reader's seems a lumbering vehicle for such a light load. And yet, of all the many tasks I've undertaken in my life—apart from bearing and raising my children—it's my books that have best lasted and carried forward, the main thing I have to show for all my efforts. The lineup of first editions on my office bookshelf seems a procession of captured years, my basement full of books like an array of vintages laid down in a wine cellar. A certain branch of linguistics and culture studies has a catchphrase—"time-binding"—to tag those inventions, including writing, that allow humans to carry their culture and achievements forward, through time that otherwise destroys all things each instant. I would quibble a little with the phrase, since it's not actually time that is bound. "We can neither make, nor retain, a single moment of time," as C. S. Lewis remarks somewhere. But for a little while, time's grinding teeth may be eluded. Most of my life's labors were consumed almost as soon as committed—all that housekeeping plowed under, all those meals I cooked gone in a day, all the forgettable daily tasks duly forgotten. But "Words," as another writer said, "can outlast stones." I'm not sure mine will go that far, but they definitely outlast meals. I'm a bit bemused by this present volume. Why spend precious time reading about books—or worse, about the author—when you could be reading the actual books? But I presume the main audience here will be those who have read parts or all of the Vorkosigan Saga already, a reflection which allays my writerly anxiety. For you all, I trust that many amusements and some lively discussion follow. So I will get out of the way of the text—as writers should—and bid you all have fun. — Lois McMaster Bujold Edina, Minnesota, November 2007 CREATOR OF THE VORKOSIVERSE Putting It Together: Life, the Vorkosiverse, and Everything Lois McMaster Bujold Fans have dubbed my science fiction universe "the Vorkosiverse," after its most memorable and central (but far from only) character and his family. Science fiction and fantasy are the only genres I know where a series is defined by what universe it is set in (making mainstream fiction, looked at with the right squint, the world's largest shared-universe series). The series is a family saga, as it has grown to center around one family where all the stresses of their changing worlds intersect. The tale begins in Shards of Honor (which I have also described as "a gothic romance in SF drag") where Cordelia Naismith, a survey scientist from the advanced planet of Beta Colony, first meets Aral Vorkosigan, soldier from war-torn Barrayar. Barrayar, settled early by humanity, had been cut off from the rest of the worlds by an astrographic accident, and regressed culturally and technologically in what they call their "Time of Isolation," until rediscovered in Aral's father's time. It has been scrambling to catch up ever since, an effort sabotaged by both external invasion and internal civil conflict. And so I can have my swords 'n' spaceships in a way that makes both historical and economic sense. In that early work, when I was still feeling my way into such basics as how to write a novel at all, I used elements ready in my head.
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