LOIS McMASTER BUJOLD (1949 – ) An American author of Science Fiction and Fantasy. She is the creator of three major SFF series. The Vorkosigan series, her best known and longest running, features a high born protagonist with a serious birth defect. It primarily features Miles Vorkosigan, a naval operative in a galaxy spanning empire. The Chalion series is set in a Fantasy universe with a medieval like setting. Her Sharing Knife series is also a Fantasy series but it is inspired by the part of North America she has spent her life – the country south of the Great Lakes – unlike other quasi-medieval Fantasy the Sharing Knife series is also inspired by the early 19th century. Nearly everything that Bujold has written has been made available in the audiobook format. Blackstone Audio has all of her Vorkosigan novels in print. But most of her Vorkosigan series was also once available as audiobooks via The Reader’s Chair (an audiobook company that no longer exists).
Audiobooks from Blackstone Audio:
The Chalion series:
The Curse Of Chalion (Book 1 in the Chalion Series)
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Lloyd James
15 CDs – Approx 19.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2004
ISBN: 0786185988
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Paladin Of Souls (Book 2 in the Chalion Series)
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Kate Reading
13 CDs – Approx. 15 hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2005
ISBN: 0786181397
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The Hallowed Hunt (Book 3 in the Chalion Series)
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Marguerite Gavin
1 MP3-CD – Approx. 15.4 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433201059
The half-mad Prince Boleso has been slain by a noblewoman he had intended to defile. It falls to Lord Ingrey kin Wilfcliff to transport the prince to his burial place and to bring the accused killer, Lady Ijada, to judgment. His mission is an ugly and delicate one, for the imminent death of the old Hallow King has placed the crown in play, and the road he travels with his burden and his prisoner is fraught with danger. But in the midst of political chaos, magic has the fiercer hold on Ingrey’s destiny, and Ijada herself may turn out to be the only one he dares trust.
The Sharing Knife Series:
The Sharing Knife; Vol. 1, Beguilement
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Bernadette Dunne
10 CD, 12 hrs – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433206238
Young, pregnant Fawn Bluefield has just fled her family’s farm to the city of Glassforge, where she encounters a patrol of the enigmatic soldier-sorcerers known as Lakewalkers. Fawn has heard stories about the Lakewalkers, wandering necromancers with no permanent homes and no possessions but the clothes they wear and the mysterious knives they carry. What she does not know is that the Lakewalkers are engaged in a perilous campaign against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as “malices”. When Fawn is kidnapped by one of these creatures, it is up to Dag, an older Lakewalker heavy with sorrows and responsibilities, to rescue her. But in the ensuing struggle, it is not Dag but Fawn who kills the creature—at dire cost—and an uncanny accident befalls Dag’s sharing knife, which unexpectedly binds their two fates together.
The Sharing Knife; Vol. 2, Legacy
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Bernadette Dunne
11 CDs – 13 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433207792
Here is volume two of this gripping adventure-romance filled with heroic deeds and wondrous magic. Fawn Bluefield, the clever young farmer girl, and Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned Lakewalker soldier-sorcerer, have been married all of two hours when they depart her family’s farm for Dag’s home on Hickory Lake Camp. But their arrival is met with prejudice and suspicion, setting many in the camp against them and threatening permanent exile for Dag. Then Dag is called away by an unexpected and vicious malice attack on a neighboring hinterland, threatening Lakewalkers and farmers both. What his patrol discovers there will not only change Dag and his new bride but will call into question the uneasy relationship between their peoples and may even offer hope of a less divided future.
The Sharing Knife, Passage, Vol. 3
By Lois McMaster Bujould; Read by Bernadette Dunne
12 CD, 15 hrs – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9781433234910
Filled with magic, heroism, and all-too-human characters, Bujold’s Sharing Knife saga is both a gripping adventure and a poignant romance. In this third volume, Fawn, the young farm girl, and Dag, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, set off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples and encounter new hazards both human and uncanny. The farmers and riverfolk have long distrusted the power of the mysterious and aloof Lakewalkers, even though they depend on them for protection from the evil malices. The proud Lakewalkers, meanwhile, have exiled Dag after learning of his marriage to Fawn, the first outsider to be bound to a Lakewalker in their magical way. But as Dag’s natural Lakewalker ability to manipulate “ground energy” begins to develop in dangerous directions, he and Fawn realize that big changes are ahead.
The Sharing Knife Book 4: Horizon
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Bernadette Dunne
13 CDs – 15.5 Hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781433235931
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 rescued farm girl Fawn, neither expected to fall in love, marry, and defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the split between their peoples. As Dag’s powers have grown, so has his frustration with the Lakewalkers’ rigid mores. Fawn and Dag see that their world is changing and that the traditional Lakewalker practices cannot hold the malices at bay forever. Yet for all the customs that the couple have challenged, they will soon be confronted with their worst crisis yet. When the old traditions fail, can their untried new ways stand against their world’s deadliest foe?
The Vorkosigan Series:
The Vor Game
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
9 CDs – Approx. 10 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2005
ISBN: 9780786178308
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The Warrior’s Apprentice
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
1 MP3-CD – Approx. 10.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: September 2005
ISBN: 9780786179534
Miles Vorkosigan makes his debut in this frenetic coming-of-age tale. At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy; he passes the written but manages, through miscalculation in a moment of anger, to break both his legs on the obstacle course, washing out before he begins. His aged grandfather dies in his sleep shortly after, for which Miles blames himself. Miles is sent to visit his grandmother Naismith on distant Beta Colony, accompanied by his bodyguard, Sergeant Bothari and Bothari’s daughter, Elena. Miles passes himself off as a mercenary leader as he picks up a ragtag crew, and soon Miles’s father Aral is under political attack back home as garbled rumors of Miles’s mercenary operations trickle back. Miles must abandon his new fleet and dash back to Barrayar to stop the plot.
Cetaganda
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
1 MP3-CD – Approx. 9.3 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: May 2006
ISBN: 9780786175116
When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arrival, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. When the same servant turns up dead the next day, Miles and Ivan find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture, while lascivious Ivan manages to get himself involved with several noble females at the same time, a diplomatic no-no of the first order. As the plot thickens, it becomes clear that it’s up to Miles to save the empire.
Memory
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
MP3 Disc or 12 CDs, Approx. 14.5 hrs – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433201158(mp3); 9781433201141(cd)
Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that’s what Miles Vorkosigan thinks, and he should know, having done both once already.
Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and incredible artistry from a medical specialist, Miles’s first death won’t be his last. But it does take some recovery, a fact he has been reluctant to admit. When he makes the mistake of returning too soon to military duty, he finds himself summoned home to face the Barrayaran security chief, Simon Illyan. But Miles’s worst nightmares about Simon Illyan are nothing compared to Illyan’s own nightmares. Under suspicion himself, Miles must seek out the answers to Ilyan’s nightmares or see the inevitable destruction of Imperial Security and, with it, the Empire.
Komaar: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
10 CDs, 1 MP3CD, 9 cassettes; 12.5 hrs – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433202582 (CD), 9781433202599 (MP3-CD), 9781433202575 (cassettes)
Komarr could be a garden with a thousand more years’ work, or an uninhabitable wasteland if the terraforming fails. Now, the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor of Barrayar sends his newest imperial auditor, Lord Miles Vorkosigan, to find out why. The choice is not a popular one on Komarr, where a betrayal a generation before drenched the name of Vorkosigan in blood. Thus, the Komarrans surrounding Miles could be loyal subjects, potential hostages, innocent victims, or rebels ready for revenge. Lies within lies, treachery within treachery, Miles is caught in a race against time to stop a plot that could exile him from Barrayar forever. His burning hope lies in an unexpected ally, one with wounds as deep and honor as beleaguered as his own.
A Civil Campaign
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
16 CDs – 19 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433207099
Lord Miles Vorkosigan has a problem that all his new power can’t solve: unrequited love for the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won’t do, go to subterfuge. Miles has a cunning plan, which, of course, has to be worked out in between District succession scandals and plans for the Emperor’s wedding. And if no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy, just imagine what all Miles’s friends and relatives can do to his romantic strategy.
Diplomatic Immunity
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
9 CDs – Approx. 11 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9781433213144
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Winterfair Gifts
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
2 CDs – 2.5 Hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2008
ISBN: 9781433250170
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Mirror Dance
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Grover Gardner
15 CDs – about 18 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2007
ISBN: 9781433205699
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Audiobooks from The Reader’s Chair:
Falling Free
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
7 Cassettes – 9 hours [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
Published: 1996
ISBN: 0962401099
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Shards Of Honor
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
? MP3-CD – Approx. ??? [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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Barrayar
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
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Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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The Warrior’s Apprentice
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
? MP3-CD – Approx. ??? [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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The Vor Game
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
? MP3-CD – Approx. ??? [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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Cetaganda
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
? MP3-CD – Approx. ??? [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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Ethan Of Athos
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
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Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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Borders Of Infinity
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
1 MP3-CD – Approx. 10 Hours 11 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
Published: 2000
ISBN: 1885585098
A trilogy of Miles Vorkosigan adventures…
The Mountains Of Mourning is a Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella. Just after graduating from military academy, Ensign Miles must take on one of his duties as a Barrayaran Vor Lord by acting as a destective and judge in a back-country murder case.
In Labyrinth, Miles travels to Jackson’s Whole on a covert mission for Barrayar as Dendarri Mercenary Admiral Naismith. His mission is to rescue a top research geneticist is complicated by the doctor’s inssitence that one oh his experimental creatures be destroyed first.
The Borders Of Infinity finds miles in a Cetegandan prison camp. But why is he there? How does he handle captivity? And, will he make it out alive?
Brothers In Arms
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
? MP3-CD – Approx. ??? [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: The Reader’s Chair
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Mirror Dance
By Lois McMaster Bujold; Read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan
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Adventures In Sci-Fi Publishing – interview with Lois McMaster Bujold
1 |MP3| – Approx. 59 Minutes [INTERVIEW]
Podcaster: Adventures In Sci-Fi Publishing
Podcast: May 2008
“Lois McMaster Bujold answers questions about her work, the writing process, working with Jim Baen, and much more.”