In Memory ( 1996), perhaps Bujold's most impressive novel, Miles is forced to confront the contradictions of his multiple identities and tangled loyalties, in the end choosing a vision of himself as an enlightened Barrayaran aristocrat over his life as a galactic mercenary. Ethan of Athos ( 1986), set after The Vor Game, focuses on Elli Quinn, who eventually becomes Miles's lover, and a representative of a male separatist culture threatened by the imminent failure of the technology which creates its children. The short stories in Borders of Infinity (fixup 1989) – assembled with The Vor Game as Vorkosigan's Game (omni 1990) – including the Hugo- and Nebula-winning "The Mountains of Mourning" (May 1989 Analog 2014), feature Miles at various points in his early career. His complicated double life in the Barrayaran Navy (as an ensign, soon transferred to Imperial Security) and the Dendarii Mercenaries (of which he accidentally becomes the founder and admiral) is followed, in order of internal chronology, in The Warrior's Apprentice ( 1986) – assembled with Shards of Honor as Test of Honor (omni 1987) – The Vor Game (first part February 1990 Analog as "Weatherman" exp 1990), which won a 1991 Hugo Cetaganda (October-December 1995 Analog 1996), set on the titular homeworld of an interstellar empire controlled by a hierarchy of artificially created human subspecies Brothers in Arms ( 1989) and the ambitious Mirror Dance ( 1994) (see Clones Identity Torture), recipient of a 1995 Hugo. Miles grows up to become a supremely charismatic, witty, compulsively driven military genius who triumphantly transcends the difficulties caused by his brittle bones and 4ft 9in (1.45m) stature. Shards of Honor ( 1986) and its immediate sequel Barrayar (July-October 1991 Analog 1991) which won a 1992 Hugo, deal with the romance between Lord Aral Vorkosigan and the sophisticated off-worlder Cordelia Naismith the child of their marriage is Miles Vorkosigan, born with severe physical handicaps due to a politically inspired attempt to Poison his father. Most of these stories feature members of the Vorkosigan family, part of an elite military caste from the planet Barrayar, recently rediscovered by galactic civilization after regressing into semifeudalism. Almost all her published sf work is part of a loose series of often humorous adventures set in a future of feuding galactic colonies connected by Faster-than-Light " Wormhole jumps". (1949- ) US author who began publishing sf with "Barter" for Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, March/April 1985.
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