Lois McMaster Bujold Books in Order

When rumors spread that an ox at his brother in law's bridge building site is demon ridden, Penric turns the case into a field lesson for his adopted daughter and student sorceress Otta. A routine inspection becomes a dangerous mountain search that reshapes both mentor and apprentices.

Called to support Princess Archdivine Llewen at a contentious Temple conclave in the border town of Occo, Penric and Desdemona find themselves navigating old grudges, new plots, and the politics of Carpagamon. What begins as church business turns into a test of their wits and hearts.

Road weary bandit Roz thinks the mild looking Penric with his "treasure map" will make an easy mark. Hiring on as guide and muscle, he learns that Pen never travels alone, and that crossing a Temple sorcerer and his demon can radically change a scoundrel's future.

A shipwrecked six year old girl carrying a very young demon draws Penric, Desdemona, and the kin Jurald family into a tangle of Temple rules, family hopes, and hard questions about a demon's right to live. Pen and Des find themselves, for once, on opposite sides.

Edited and introduced by Bujold, this chapbook presents two 1864 pocket diaries and a later memoir from members of her Gerould ancestors. A Union navy surgeon, his mother in New Hampshire, and his soldier brother offer three firsthand views of the American Civil War.

This collection brings together three Penric and Desdemona novellas, sending the pair into a demon tangled Bastard's Eve in Lodi, a pirate stronghold where two orphaned sisters need rescuing, and a plague struck army fort outside Vilnoc.

An attack on his brother in law General Arisaydia drags Penric into the snake pit of Cedonian imperial politics, where he must uncover hidden sorcerers and hired killers while balancing Temple duty, family loyalties, and Desdemona's dangerous gifts.

When a body hauled from Vilnoc harbor proves not entirely dead, Penric and Desdemona are drawn into an unsettling investigation that probes unfinished deaths, the ethics of demon work, and what justice can look like for the living and the lost.

Summoned to an army fort guarding Vilnoc, Penric must resurrect his medical training to confront a mysterious, fast spreading plague. As soldiers and civilians fall ill, he and Desdemona race to find a cure before the god of mischance claims the field.

Captured by island raiders while traveling by sea, Penric and Desdemona find themselves entangled with two frightened orphaned sisters and the ruthless captors who hold them. Escaping the pirate stronghold will demand every bit of their cunning and magic.

Lakewalker patroller Barr Foxbrush returns from years in the northern wilds to discover that the secret daughter he left behind has vanished after a terrible accusation. His search forces him to face his past mistakes and learn how to be a father at last.

Newly settled into her role as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin works with scientist Enrique Borgos to test bioengineered insects in the radioactive wasteland around Vorkosigan Vashnoi. When their "butter bugs" go missing, they uncover hidden lives and old sins.

At last safe in Orbas, Penric and Nikys learn that her mother has been seized by enemies and confined on an island sanctuary. Their rescue plan requires slipping back into hostile Cedonia, courting reluctant allies, and trusting Desdemona through every reversal.

Disguised as a minor lawyer, Penric sails to Cedonia on a clandestine diplomatic assignment, only to be arrested, injured, and thrown into a dungeon soon after arrival. His escape pulls him into the fate of a blinded general and the general's determined sister.

Still fleeing Cedonian authorities, Penric escorts General Arisaydia and Nikys toward safety. In a tense border town, he must rely on Desdemona's courtesan persona, Mira, to navigate soldiers, brothels, and suspicion while keeping his wounded charges alive.

Visiting the Weald's capital, Penric is pulled into the case of a murdered Temple sorceress and a demon that may have fled into an ordinary fox. Tracking both the animal and a human killer forces him to collaborate uneasily with local shamans.

Now a trained divine and sorcerer, Penric is sent with a grim Locator to hunt a Wealdean shaman accused of murder. Their trek into the mountains uncovers Great Beasts, tangled grief, and a crime far more complicated than a simple killing.

On Bastard's Eve in the canal city of Lodi, Penric and Desdemona are asked to look in on a madman locked in a tower. Before the night's over they are juggling a dangerous ascendant demon, an unexpected saint, and the thin line between celebration and catastrophe.

Three years after Aral Vorkosigan's death, Vicereine Cordelia Naismith on Sergyar proposes a radical new future for herself and Admiral Oliver Jole, using stored genetic material and uterine replicator technology. Family expectations, old griefs, and new possibilities collide.

On his way to an arranged marriage, young Lord Penric stops to help a dying Temple divine and unexpectedly inherits her chaos demon. Overnight he goes from minor country noble to untrained sorcerer, with a chorus of former lives in his head and a new fate ahead.

A collection of Bujold's nonfiction, *Sidelines* gathers decades of speeches, essays, introductions, and travel pieces that touch on writing craft, science fiction and fantasy, fandom, culture, and the personal experiences that shaped her stories.

Often content to be the easygoing cousin in the background, Captain Ivan Vorpatril is ordered to quietly watch over a mysterious young woman on Komarr. His attempt to protect Tej and her fierce companion Rish leads to a hasty marriage, buried treasure, and a very Barrayaran heist.

A collection of five early stories plus an introduction, *Proto Zoa* showcases the first "life" of Bujold's writing career. Tales such as "Barter," "Garage Sale," "The Hole Truth," "Dreamweaver's Dilemma," and "Aftermaths" blend everyday settings with odd bargains, grief, and speculative twists.

Sent to the planet Kibou daini to investigate a cryonics megacorporation, Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan stumbles into kidnapping attempts, underground cryo facilities, and political unrest. The case becomes an exploration of a society built around postponing death at any cost.

In the concluding volume of The Sharing Knife, Dag searches for a groundsetting teacher and sets out across the country with Fawn and a mixed band of Lakewalkers and farmers. Their long journey tests their new ideas about healing, community, and the future of both peoples.

A comprehensive companion to the Vorkosigan Saga, this volume gathers essays, reference entries, maps, timelines, and interviews that shed light on Miles Vorkosigan, his family, and the history, technology, and cultures of his universe.

Newly exiled from Lakewalker camps, Dag and Fawn take to the river on a flatboat, gathering a crew of farmers and Lakewalkers as they go. Their voyage downstream brings river hazards, bandits, and a renegade patroller, and becomes an experiment in cooperation between mistrustful cultures.

Immediately following *Beguilement*, this volume sees Fawn travel upriver into Lakewalker territory with her new husband Dag. Facing family disapproval, strict traditions, and a rising malice, they must decide what their marriage means in a world that would rather keep them apart.

Farmer girl Fawn runs away from home and crosses paths with Dag, a seasoned Lakewalker patroller hunting an inhuman malice. Forced into partnership during an attack, they survive through courage and magic, only to find that falling in love may be the most disruptive act of all.

Set in the Weald of the World of the Five Gods, this novel follows Ingrey, a soldier haunted by a wolf spirit within him, and Lady Ijada, accused of murdering a prince. As they travel together, they uncover old crimes, wild magic, and the Son god's unsettling plans.

Middle aged and stifled by her reputation for madness, dowager royina Ista slips away on pilgrimage and instead plunges into siege, sorcery, and the Bastard god's service. Her journey becomes a second coming of age filled with demons, miracles, and unexpected love.

Told from Armsman Roic's point of view, this novella covers the days leading up to Miles and Ekaterin's Winterfair wedding. As Roic shepherds towering Dendarii mercenary Taura through Barrayaran society, the pair uncover an assassination attempt and a more personal, quieter romance.

On their belated honeymoon, Miles and Ekaterin are diverted to Quaddiespace when a Barrayaran convoy is impounded at Graf Station. As Imperial Auditor, Miles must unravel a tangle involving missing cargo, dead bodies, and quaddie politics before a local incident sparks interstellar war.

War scarred noble Cazaril returns home hoping for a humble post and is instead made tutor to a princess ensnared in deadly court politics. As he uncovers a generations old curse on the royal family, the gods of Chalion ask him for sacrifices he never expected to make.

Part political novel, part comedy of manners, this story finds Miles scheming to court the widowed Ekaterin without her knowledge while juggling a contested Countship, a scandal over bioengineered insects, and preparations for Emperor Gregor's wedding on Barrayar.

Newly appointed Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan travels to Komarr to investigate the apparent accident that crippled the planet's vital solar mirror array. Partnered with a senior Auditor and quartered with unhappy engineer Ekaterin Vorsoisson, he uncovers sabotage and falls in love.

After a seizure on a mission leads Miles to falsify a report, his long career in Imperial Security collapses. Summoned home in disgrace, he is unexpectedly made an Imperial Auditor and tasked with solving a crisis in Simon Illyan's mind, forcing Miles to redefine who he is without a uniform.

This collection gathers early short fiction and essays, including the title story set at the dawn of human space colonization, the Hugo winning novella *The Mountains of Mourning*, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, and background pieces on Miles Vorkosigan's universe and genealogy.

Sent with Ivan to Cetaganda for an imperial funeral, Miles expects dull ceremony and instead stumbles into theft, murder, and a plot involving the haut rulers' genetic control system. Navigating a maze of etiquette and espionage, he must solve the mystery without starting a war.

Miles's clone brother Mark steals his identity and leads a mission to liberate clones from Jackson's Whole, with disastrous results. When Miles rushes to the rescue, the fallout shatters his body and career, forcing both brothers to confront who they are and what freedom costs.

In a Renaissance inspired Italian city state, metalworker's daughter Fiametta and Swiss miner Thur must thwart a usurper who uses necromancy and murder to forge a ring of power from stolen spirits. Magic, guild craft, and church politics intertwine in this standalone historical fantasy.

Newly married to Aral Vorkosigan and pregnant with their first child, Cordelia Naismith finds herself at the center of a regency, a palace coup, and a civil war on Barrayar. Saving both the child in a uterine replicator and the fragile empire will require nerve, ruthlessness, and love.

Assigned as weather officer to a grim arctic training base on Kyril Island, newly minted Ensign Miles Vorkosigan is supposed to be safely out of trouble. When a mutagenic spill leads to a standoff between troops and their commander, Miles's sense of honor sparks charges of mutiny.

Exiled from Kyril Island after defying a criminal order, Miles is sent to a quiet posting in the Hegen Hub and soon stumbles into mutinies, mercenary fleets, and a kidnapped Emperor Gregor. To save the day, he must juggle his roles as Lord Vorkosigan and Admiral Naismith.

Between the Academy and his first assignment, Miles is sent as his father's Voice to a remote village to judge a case of infanticide. Facing ingrained prejudice against physical defects, he must untangle lies and fear to deliver both justice and mercy.

Miles, undercover as Admiral Naismith, travels to Jackson's Whole to buy a scientist and instead finds a genetically engineered supersoldier trapped in a sadistic baron's lab. Rescuing both the man and the monstrous yet vulnerable woman named Taura will take audacity and improvisation.

On Earth to secure funding for the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles is already strained by his double life when he discovers that Komarran terrorists have grown a clone of him, Mark, as an assassin. Their clash tangles identity, loyalty, and the politics of Barrayar's enemies.

Allowing himself to be captured by the Cetagandans, Miles infiltrates a grim POW camp on Dagoola IV under the Naismith persona. With only rumors, a religious fanatic, and his own nerve, he must turn apathetic prisoners into an army ready to seize a fleeting chance at escape.

Two centuries before Miles, engineer Leo Graf travels to a space station to teach welding and discovers his students are "quaddies" humans engineered with four arms for zero gravity work. When their corporate owners decide the quaddies are obsolete, Leo helps plan a desperate bid for freedom.

Seventeen year old Miles Vorkosigan fails the physical tests for Barrayar's military academy and bolts off world, where a series of split second decisions leave him commanding a mercenary fleet he essentially invented. The lies that follow will shape his life and the empire's future.

Survey captain Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony is stranded on a newly discovered world with her enemy, Barrayaran commander Aral Vorkosigan, after mutiny and attack. Forced to cooperate to survive, they confront treachery, war, and the possibility of an impossible love.

On the all male world of Athos, reproduction depends on aging ovarian cultures maintained in uterine replicators. When a long awaited shipment of tissue arrives spoiled, obstetrician Ethan Urquhart is sent into the wider galaxy to secure replacements and must confront both women and interstellar intrigue.

This short story, often titled "Aftermaths," follows the quiet crew tasked with recovering bodies from the debris field after a brutal space battle. As they match names to the dead and confront their own reactions, the story focuses on grief and the human cost behind military glory.