"Fresh, intriguing, and as always from Lois McMaster Bujold, superb." Robert Jordan, New York Times best selling author of The Wheel of Time Series
"Bujold continues to prove what marvels genius can create out of basic space operatics." Booklist
"This is one of the great ones." Science Fiction Chronicle
Lois McMaster Bujold was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1949. She attended Ohio State University from 1968 to 1972. The Curse of Chalion, was published in 2001 and won the Mythopoeic Award for best adult fantasy. Its sequel, Paladin of Souls, won a Romantic Times 2003 Reviewers' Choice Award for best fantasy novel, the Locus award for best fantasy novel, and the Hugo Award for best novel. All of her titles have been translated into fourteen languages (so far).