Shards of Honor

Name: Shards of Honor
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
ISBN: 9781433231957

Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/20/2009

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

It was the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for the wrong reasons. And Captain Cordelia Naismith of the Betan Expeditionary Force would be forced into a separate peace with her enemy, Lord Vorkosigan. Shards of Honor is the novel in which Lois McMaster Bujold introduced the sciencefiction world to Barrayar and Aral Vorkosigan, Beta Colony and Cordelia Naismith. From this beginning the author has created a multigenerational saga spanning time as well as space. Bujold is generally recognized as the current exemplar of the characterbased sciencefiction adventure story.

About Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 she was named a Damon Knight Grand Master by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, one of science fictionâ€™s highest honors. She has won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award for her significant contribution to science fiction. Hugo awards for Best Series were received by the Vorkosigan Saga in 2017, and the World of the Five Gods in 2018.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on February 12, 2017

An all-time SF favorite! Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: Shards of Honor (often packaged with Barrayar and sold as Cordelia's Honor) is one of those SF space opera books that I love beyond reason and pull off my bookshelf every few years to reread, contentedly immersing myself in B......more

Goodreads review by karen on April 13, 2019

okay, so let me just say that i was totally dreading this book. i promised some of the ladies in my online life that i would "read more fantasy" and this was suggested, even though this is more sci-fi/space opera to my untrained eyes, yeah?? i mean - where are my unicorns!? just one token unicorn wi......more

Goodreads review by mark on March 28, 2013

Cordelia Naismith is the captain of an astronomical survey ship from the peaceful Beta Colony. Lord Aral Vorkosigan is the leader of a secret military mission from the warlike planet Barrayar. the title "Shards of Honor" no doubt refers to the small bits of honor that Aral must cling to as he finds......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 18, 2017

Re-read 11/18/17: Actually, it's my third read. It was only a few years ago when I read it last and since then I've plowed through all the other novels in a row. It's so good that I have to do it all over again. That being said, I think this novel is growing more and more on me. I loved it before and......more

Goodreads review by Choko on December 13, 2023

*** 4 *** A buddy read with Evgeny! This was the first time we got to meet a Vorkosigan, the family name after which this series is named. From what I have learned, he ends up being the father of the main protagonist in the series as we go along. Although Vorkosigan is a perfect specimen of a man, sma......more