Citations:Vorkosiverse

English citations of Vorkosiverse

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the fictional universe which serves as the setting of the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold"

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• 2007, "Preface", Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles, Mutants and Microbes, page 1:

  In this volume you will find two novels and a novella from what, due to my reluctance to coin a suitably imposing-sounding series name, its fans have eventually dubbed “the Vorkosiverse,” after its most memorable and central (but far from only) character and his family.

• 2008, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan, "Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today", in The Vorkosigan Companion (John Helfers & Lillian Stewart Carl), unnumbered page:

  Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series that takes place in the "Vorkosiverse" is excellent for many reasons.

• 2013, John Lennard, "(Absent) Gods and Sharing Knives: The Purposes of Lois McMaster Bujold's Fantastic Ir/Religions", in Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Janet Brennan Croft), page 173:

  The early Vorkosiverse novels were inter alia a late-Cold War product whose Barrayarans — green-uniformed and predominantly of Russian stock — are typically atheists given to ancestor-worship.

• 2013, Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 170:

  I have a theory that that's one of the functions of lung-running series. It's not just art, which is between you and the artist, it's also gossip, between you and other people. Certainly I have discussed these books a lot. With a long series where details and information and events reflect on other volumes, there's more to discuss because there's more context. There's more gossip. The Vorkosiverse is very open to gossip, about the characters, about the history, about the details.

• 2020, Ally Wolfe, "Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World", in Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold (eds. Regina Yung Lee & Una McCormack), page 201:

  Athos and Cetaganda are the two worlds of the Vorkosiverse most reliant on uterine replicator births.

• 2020, Edward James, "Building the Vorkosigan Universe", in Exploring Imaginary Worlds Essays on Media, Structure, and Subcreation (ed. Mark J. P. Wolf), unnumbered page:

  The Vorkosigan Universe (or Vorkosiverse, as some fans with no feeling for the English language call it) was created over several decades, with new parts being created when needed.