Vorkosigan Books in Order

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.