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Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

  Caveats:

  The novella “Weatherman” is an out-take from the beginning of the novel The Vor Game. If you already have The Vor Game, you likely don’t need this.

  The original ‘novel’ Borders of Infinity was a fix-up collection containing the three novellas “The Mountains of Mourning”, “Labyrinth”, and “The Borders of Infinity”, together with a frame to tie the pieces together. Again, beware duplication. The frame story does not stand alone.

  Publication order:

  This is also the order in which the works were written, apart from a couple of the novellas, but is not identical to the internal-chronological. It goes:

  Shards of Honor (June 1986)

  The Warrior’s Apprentice (August 1986)

  Ethan of Athos (December 1986)

  Falling Free (April 1988)

  Brothers in Arms (January 1989)

  Borders of Infinity (October 1989)

  The Vor Game (September 1990)

  Barrayar (October 1991)

  Mirror Dance (March 1994)

  Cetaganda (January 1996)

  Memory (October 1996)

  Komarr (June 1998)

  A Civil Campaign (September 1999).

  Diplomatic Immunity (May 2002)

  “Winterfair Gifts” (February 2004)

  CryoBurn (November 2010)

  Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance (November 2012)

  Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (February 2016)

  “The Flowers of Vashnoi” (May 2018)

  . . . Thirty years fitted on a page. Huh.

  Happy reading!

  — Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lois McMaster Bujold

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  Lois McMaster Bujold was born in 1949, the daughter of an engineering professor at Ohio State University, from whom she picked up her early interest in science fiction. She now lives in Minneapolis, and has two grown children. She began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982. She wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold to Baen Books, launching her career. Bujold went on to write many other books for Baen, mostly featuring her popular character Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, his family, friends, and enemies. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. Her fantasy from Eos includes the award-winning Chalion series and the Sharing Knife series.

  Books by Lois McMaster Bujold

  The Vorkosigan Series

  Falling Free

  Shards of Honor

  Barrayar

  The Warrior’s Apprentice

  The Vor Game

  Cetaganda

  Ethan of Athos

  Borders of Infinity

  Brothers in Arms

  Mirror Dance

  Memory

  Komarr

  A Civil Campaign

  Diplomatic Immunity

  Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance

  CryoBurn

  Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen

  The Chalion Series

  The Hallowed Hunt

  The Curse of Chalion

  Paladin of Souls

  Penric & Desdemona

  “Penric’s Demon”

  “Penric and the Shaman”

  “Penric’s Fox”

  “Masquerade in Lodi”

  “Penric’s Mission”

  “Mira’s Last Dance”

  “The Prisoner of Limnos”

  “The Orphans of Raspay”

  “The Physicians of Vilnoc”

  The Sharing Knife Tetralogy

  Volume One: Beguilement

  Volume Two: Legacy

  Volume Three: Passage

  Volume Four: Horizon

  “Knife Children"

  Other Fantasy

  The Spirit Ring

  Short Stories

  Proto Zoa

  Nonfiction

  Sidelines: Talks and Essays