A list of characters or places in the Vorkosigan Saga who are Tuckerized from fans:
Name in Saga | Story | Fan |
Siegling's | Barrayar | Van Siegling |
Pilot Padget | "Labyrinth" | Scott Padget |
Sergeant Laureen Anderson | "Labyrinth" | Lt Cdr Laureen Anderson |
Trooper/Lt Sandy Hereld |
"Labyrinth", Mirror Dance |
Sandy Hereld |
Moglia | "Labyrinth" | John Moglia |
Lt Durham | Mirror Dance | Peter Durham |
Trooper Boyd | Mirror Dance | Charles Boyd |
Tech Vifian | Mirror Dance | John Vifian |
Medic Norwood | Mirror Dance | Barbara Norwood |
Trooper Philippi | Mirror Dance | Colleen Philippi |
Colonel Vorreedi | Cetaganda | Patricia Wrede |
Count Vormuir | A Civil Campaign | Doug Muir |
Count Vorharopulos | A Civil Campaign | Alexandra Haropulos |
Count Vorfolse | A Civil Campaign | Stephanie Folse |
Ensign Plause | The Vor Game | Mitchell Burnside Clapp |
Lazkowski Base | The Vor Game | Lam Laskowski |
Captain Chris Clogston | Diplomatic Immunity |
Chris Clogston |
Armsman Kelso | A Civil Campaign |
Sylvia Kelso |
Other Names[]
- Byerly Vorrutyer's name comes from Byerly's, a chain of upscale "decadent" stores in Minnesota.
- The name Vorkosigan comes from Andrei Kosygin, a Soviet diplomat from the 1960s.
- In The Vorkosigan Companion (in the Forward to Falling Free), the following are suggested as possible influences for names: Professor Karl Graf and Leo Wilcox of Ohio State University for Leo Graf; Clarence Jackson, also of Ohio State University, for Claire; Hildegard Minchenko, a researcher who worked with Bujold's father, for Doctor Minchenko.
- Claimed but not proven: Ma and Martin Kosti for Martin Kaste of NPR.
Trivia[]
- To be Tuckerized is a long-standing tradition in fiction, with historical examples of poets putting their patrons into works they commissioned. It was formalized in modern times by Wilson Tucker.