Janet Brennan Croft is liaison to the school of communication and information and librarian for disability services and copyright at Rutgers University Libraries in North Brunswick, New Jersey. She has written on the Peter Jackson films, J.K. Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other authors, and is editor or co-editor of five collections of literary essays and edits the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Forward Momentum (Janet Brennan Croft)

A Note on Editions and Abbreviations

Love and Death in the Vorkosiverse: An Interview with

Lois McMaster Bujold (Sandra J. Lindow)

From Both Sides Now: Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon

(Amy H. Sturgis)

Legitimacy and Legibility: Rereading Civil Discourse Through

Feminist Figurations in Cordelia's Honor (Regina Yung Lee)

The In¿uence of Family and Moral Development in Bujold's

Vorkosigan Series (Sandra J. Lindow)

The Soldier and the Cipher: Miles, Mark, and the Naming

Plots of Bujold's Vorkosiverse (Janet Brennan Croft)

The Emperor's Shoe: Power, Home, and the Other in the

Vorkosigan Saga (Andrew Hallam)

Chaos and Quest: Miles Vorkosigan's Disability Narrative

(Virginia Bemis)

Broken Brothers in Arms: Acting the Man in The Warrior's

Apprentice (Linda Wight)

Difference and Ability: Conceptualizing Bodily Variation

the Vorkosigan Series (Shannan Palma)

The Decay of the Cyborg Body in Bujold's Memory (Sylvia Kelso)

From Iberian to Ibran and Catholic to Quintarian: Bujold's

Alternate History of the Spanish Reconquest in the Chalion

Series (David D. Oberhelman)

(Absent) Gods and Sharing Knives: The Purposes of Lois

McMaster Bujold's Fantastic Ir/Religions (John Lennard)

Appendix: Bibliography and Awards

About the Contributors

Index