The Vorkosigan companion : [the universe of Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold's best-selling Vorkosigan series is a publishing phenomenon, winning record-breaking sales, critical praise, four Hugo Awards and a Nebula award. And the thousands of devotees of the series now have a book that will be a goldmine of information, background details, and little-known facts about the Vorkosigan saga. Included are an all-new interview with Bujold as well as essays by her on crafting the Vorkosigan universe, articles on the biology, technology and sociology of the planet Barrayar, appreciations of the individual novels by experts, maps, a complete timeline of the series, and more. Readers can't get enough of the Vorkosigan series and they'll jump at the chance to read this story behind the stories. Baen has a new novel in the Vorkosigan series under contract. A companion volume to Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series provides background details and little-known trivia about the saga and its characters, as well as an interview with Bujold on the writing of the series and commentary on the individual novels Features essays, encyclopedic entries on the characters, and the plots of Vorkosiverse.