Introduction: forward momentum / Janet Brennan Croft -- Love and death in the Vorkosiverse: an interview with Lois McMaster Bujold / Sandra J. Lindow -- From both sides now: Bujold and the fan fiction phenomenon / Amy H. Sturgis -- Legitimacy and legibility: rereading civil discourse through feminist figurations in Cordelia's honor / Regina Yung Lee -- The influence of family and moral development in Bujold's Vorkosigan series / Sandra J. Lindow -- The soldier and the cipher: Miles, Mark, and the naming plots of Bujold's Vorkosiverse / Janet Brennan Croft -- The emperor's shoe: power, honor, and the other in the Vorkosigan saga / Andrew Hallam -- Chaos and quest: Miles Vorkosigan's disability narrative / Virginia Bemis -- Broken brothers in arms: acting the man in The warrior's apprentice / Linda Wight -- Difference and ability: conceptualizing bodily variation in the Vorkosigan series / Shannan Palma -- The decay of the cyborg body in Bujold's Memory / Sylvia Kelso -- From Iberian to Ibran and Catholic to Quintarian: Bujold's alternate history of the Spanish reconquest in the Chalion series / David D. Oberhelman -- (Absent) gods and sharing knives: the purposes of Lois McMaster Bujold's fantastic (ir)religions / John Lennard.
Summary:
"Lois McMaster Bujold has won a shelf full of awards for both her science fiction and fantasy writing. This collection of fresh essays aims to present a variety of critical perspectives addressing many aspects of her writing. Attention is given to both her Miles Vorkosigan science fiction series and her Chalion and Sharing Knife fantasy series"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ; 37
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