Vorkosiverse

English

Etymology

Blend of Vorkosigan +‎ universe.

Proper noun

Vorkosiverse

1. (fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
   • 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 Janet Brennan Croft, editor, Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy‎^[1], 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.

   • 2020, Ally Wolfe, “Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World”, in Regina Yung Lee, Una McCormack, editors, Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold‎^[2], page 201:

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

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Vorkosiverse.