Main story: 1 BMVK - 0 BMVK Epilogue: 5 AMVK Publisher's Summary Ĭordelia Naismith, legendary ship commander in the Betan Expeditionary Force, a woman who beat the Barrayaran militarists at their own game, was never one to fulfill stereotypes.

It was also nominated for a Seiun Award (Japanese Hugo) for best translation of a foreign novel in 2001. The story continues the tale of the meeting of Miles Vorkosigan's parents, Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan the next tale in the saga chronologically is The Warrior's Apprentice, which is set some seventeen years later.īarrayar won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, the Rickie Award for best SF novel (voted by viewers of Toronto SF TV show Prisoners of Gravity), the HOMer Award for Best SF Novel, was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the SF Chronicle Award for Best Novel, all in 1992. An audio version was produced by The Reader's Chair in 1997, read by Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson. It is the eighth book published in the Saga. It was initially published serially in four installments in Analog from July to October 1991, and has since been collected in the omnibus edition Cordelia's Honor. Barrayar, written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published in 1991 by Baen Books, is the immediate sequel to Shards of Honor in the Vorkosigan Saga, dealing with events immediately following.