Diplomatic Immunity
Nebula Award nominee 2003.
A COMEDY OF TERRORS...
A
rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in
distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks
involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military
escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin,
have other things on their mind, such as getting home in time to attend
the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in
the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest
Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice
but to answer.
Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled
loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and
deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider
consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life
against death in horrifying new forms.
The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back...
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 books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Related series Vorkosigan (omnibus editions)