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	Miles, Mystery and Mayhem
	Cetaganda; Ethan of Athos; "Labyrinth"
	Miles Errant
	"The Borders of Infinity"; Brothers in Arms; Mirror Dance
	Changing Worlds
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	Miles in Love
	Komarr; A Civil Campaign; "Winterfair Gifts"
	Miles, Mutants and Microbes
	Diplomatic Immunity
	Later books
	Captain Vorpatril's Alliance; "The Flowers of Vashnoi"; Cryoburn; Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

Vorkosigan Wiki (aka VorWiki) is a collaborative website about the Vorkosigan Saga series of books authored by Lois McMaster Bujold. The site's purpose is to organize and analyze the rich history of Barrayaran culture and the societies both external and internal.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Vorkosigan Saga won the Hugo for Best Series on August 11, 2017
The Five Gods series (Chalion) won the Hugo for Best Series on August 19, 2018
Lois was named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master in 2019. (see The 55th Annual Nebula Awards Ceremony for acceptance speech (~40 minutes in))
"Testimony of Mute Things" is out as of October 23, 2025.

Things to see

Goodreads-tabulation for Lois's answers to "Questions for the Author" on Goodreads
The Chef Recommends for a Reading Order guide for Lois's various series.
Author Interviews for as many interviews of Lois as can be discovered on the internet.
Podcasts and Reviews - podcasts and other interesting reviews of Lois's works.
For book discussions, click on items in the Vorkosigan Saga template to the right.
interview by Lois's father of his grandfather: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/25164848-mcmaster-interviews-mcmaster-1959
Biographical article: https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bujold_lois_mcmaster

Random Quote

"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."

―Miles Naismith Vorkosigan - Komarr

See also Quotables - set of quotations about/by characters in the saga

Recent Interviews

Great And Secret Knowledge Jan 2025
plottrysts My Word As Vorkosigan interview, 24 September 2024
Nautilus Interview, 5 April 2024
theprotagonistspeaks Interviewing Penric and Desdemona, Mar 8 2024

Help Build the Wiki

New contributors are very much welcomed.
To learn how to edit a wiki, see this Wiki tutorial
Useful areas to work:
- Many important characters lack "Personality and traits" sections or could use expansion there
- Book articles could stand some looking over
- Touch-ups in whatever other articles might need them would be welcomed.
- Feel free to add to Quotables - it can be split into multiple pages if it gets too long
See Vorkosigan:Layout_Guide for suggestions about how to write articles for this site.
To see a collection of not-yet-written pages, try Wantedpages.
- at this time, there are no Wantedpages to work!