Editor’s note: The Nebula Awards are often described as the Academy Awards of SF/F literature. Like the Oscar, the Nebula is voted on by the members of an industry trade organization who are the professional peers of the award nominees. For the Nebula, that is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. There are six […]
Lois McMaster Bujold has long specialized in embedding a second genre, hidden beneath her novels’ shiny, science fiction and fantasy surfaces. The two books and one short story that comprise Cordelia’s Honor contain a romance; The Warrior’s Apprentice is a coming-of-age story in the tradition of Heinlein; and the Sharing Knife tales mix fantasy and dystopian fiction. While her […]
Every reader has a bucket list—oft-recommended writers you keep hearing about, whose books sound absolutely perfect, who, for some reason, you never seem to get around to reading. For years, Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan series hovered near the top of mine. The science fiction saga has been going strong for nearly 30 years, since the publication of Shards of Honor in 1986, […]
