![]() ![]() I also particularly like that since McMaster Bujold chooses a far away future as her setting, the societies and their habits are different from ours, while remaining familiar.Īnother strong point is also the variety within the genre: she writes with ease space opera, a spy novel, a whodunnit, an intimate story. It's his charm, his charisma, his tenacity that give him the strength to exist on Barrayar, a planet which is quite backward when it comes to disabilities or gender equality.īut despite those serious themes, all of the novels are full of humour, sometimes grim, always well done. ![]() One of the main characters, Miles, is one of the extremely rare characters in scifi to have a physical disability. But all the novels have a common point: the idea of self discovery and what makes us unique. The series deal with various themes and some are recurring, for instance themes about disability, bioethics, prejudices and gender. Currently, the series spans about forty years of the life of this family (apart from Falling Free which takes place 200 years in their past) and takes place on the planet Barrayar, on other planets colonised by humanity or on an orbital station. Most of the novels focus on the Vorkosigan family, and more particularly on Miles Naismith Vorkosigan. ![]() The Vorkosigan Saga is one of the names given to an ensemble of science-fiction novels and novellas written by Lois McMaster Bujold. Lois McMaster Bujold, (by internal chronological order (1)) ![]()
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