WRITER

Lois McMaster Bujold

1949 - Today

Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lois McMaster Bujold has received more than 701,535 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Lois McMaster Bujold is the 2,547th most popular writer (up from 2,588th in 2019), the 3,218th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,373rd in 2019) and the 279th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The Warrior's Apprentice

Fiction, Interplanetary voyages in fiction, Miles Vorkosigan (Fictitious character)

1986

The Sharing Knife

Magic, Imaginary places in fiction, Magic in fiction

In a world where malices — remnants of ancient magic — can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets — and themselves — from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the perilous split between their peoples.As Dag's maker abilities have grown, so has his concern about who — or what — he is becoming. At the end of a great river journey, Dag is offered an apprenticeship to a master groundsetter in a southern Lakewalker camp. But as his understanding of his powers deepens, so does his frustration with the camp's rigid mores with respect to farmers. At last, he and Fawn decide to travel a very different road — and find that along it, their disparate but hopeful company increases.Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing, and the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold every malice at bay forever. Yet for all the customs that the couple has challenged thus far, they will soon be confronted by a crisis exceeding their worst imaginings, one that threatens their Lakewalker and farmer followers alike. Now the pair must answer in earnest the question they've grappled with since they killed their first malice together: When the old traditions fail disastrously, can their untried new ways stand against their world's deadliest foe?

2007

Barrayar

Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1992, award:hugo_award=novel

1991

The Vor Game

Science fiction, Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1991

1990

Cetaganda

Fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Miles Vorkosigan (Fictitious character)

1996

The Curse of Chalion

Literature, Fiction, Magic

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is as assignment Cazaril dreads, for it must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him in chains now occupy lofty positions. but it is more than the traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. And only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge -- an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous ... and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death.

2001