Cetaganda
Locus Award nominee 1997.
Cetaganda is the latest installment of the
Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and
Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility
doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they
will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the
Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies
unnaturally – apparently a suicide, but there are rumors – Miles and Ivan
find themselves in the thick of it.
Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated,
and deceptively alien culture, while handsome and lascivious Ivan
manages to get himself involved with several noble females at the same
time – a diplomatic no-no of the first order. As the plot thickens, it
becomes clear that to fulfill a boyhood fantasy and save the Empire,
it's up to Miles to do the job. He doesn't mind exactly, but... the Cetagandan empire?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. In 2013 she was awarded the Forry Award. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for Best Series, for the Vorkosigan Saga.
Vorkosigan
Vorkosigan consists of 19 total works. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Related series Vorkosigan (omnibus editions)
