Table of contents
PREFACE
CREATOR OF THE VORKOSIVERSE
- Putting It Together: Life, the Vorkosiverse, and Everything - Lois McMaster Bujold
- A Conversation with Lois McMaster Bujold - Lillian Stewart Carl
- Publishing, Writing, and Authoring: Three Different Things - Lois McMaster Bujold
- A Conversation with Toni Weisskopf - John Helfers
ASPECTS OF THE VORKOSIVERSE
- Romance in the Vorkosiverse - Mary Jo Putney
- Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today - Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan, Ph.D.
- "What's the Worst Thing I Can Do to This Character?": Technology of the Vorkosiverse - Ed Burkhead
APPRECIATIONS
- Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold, or Thank You, but I Already Have a Life - Lillian Stewart Carl
- Foreword to Falling Free - James A. McMaster
- Foreword to Shards of Honor - James Bryant
- "More Than the Sum of His Parts": Foreword to The Warrior's Apprentice - Douglas Muir
- Foreword to Ethan of Athos - Marna Nightingale
THE FANS
- Come for the Bujold, Stay for the Beer1: Science Fiction Writers as Occasions of Fandom - Marna Nightingale
THE VORKOSIVERSE ITSELF
- A Pronunciation Guide to the Vorkosigan Universe - Suford Lewis
- An Old Earther's Guide to the Vorkosigan Universe - Denise Little
- The Vorkosigan Saga Novel Summaries - John Helfers
- The Vorkosigan Saga Concordance - Kerrie Hughes, John Helfers, and Ed Burkhead
APPENDICES
- APPENDIX I
A Map of the Vorkosigan Universe
Topology of the Wormhole Nexus - Crystal Carroll and Suford Lewis
- APPENDIX II
Timelines of the Vorkosigan Saga
Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith:
His Universe and Times
- APPENDIX III
A Brief Guide to Barrayaran Genealogy
Some Barrayaran Genealogy - Suford Lewis