New Releases by Lois McMaster Bujold

Passant au large de la station de Graf, dans l''espace quaddie, l''auditeur impérial Vorkosigan doit brusquement interrompre sa lune de miel en raison d''un incident diplomatique mettant aux prises la Sécurité quaddie et des troupes barrayaranes en escale. Sur place, quelle n''est pas sa surprise de retrouver Bel Thorne, ancien compagnon des mercenaires dendarii devenu capitaine de port de la station ! Rapidement, un attentat contre Miles, puis la découverte d''une cargaison clandestine de fœtus de la crèche des étoiles cetagandane sur l''un des vaisseaux sous escorte barrayarane viennent corser l''affaire. Quelqu''un aurait-il intérêt à déclencher une guerre entre Barrayar et l''espace quaddie ?

Whether he''s rescuing prisoners, keeping his enemies from replacing him with a clone, or coming back from his own dysfunctional death, Miles gets the job done. Of course, it may not be "quite" the job his superiors wanted done.

Commanded by his Emperor to intervene diplomatically, Lord Miles Vorkosigan--a special high-level troubleshooter--has no choice but to comply after a bloody incident on Graf Station''s docks. However, the downside of being a troubleshooter becomes apparent when trouble starts shooting back.

Despite all his power, Lord Miles Vorkosigan can''t win the hand of the beautiful Vor widow, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, who is violently allergic to marriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles has learned from his career in the galactic covert ops, subterfuge is always an option. So he devises a cunning plan.

Fans of the bestselling Vorkosigan Saga can get this limited edition volume for a great low price. The series has won the Hugo and Nebula awards and has been called space opera at its best by Publishers Weekly.

LEO GRAF WAS AN EFFECTIVE ENGINEER... Safety Regs weren''t just the rule book he swore by; he''d helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students -- till that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn''t anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe, nor in the rules ... Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies -- now all he had to do was teach them to be free.

L''Italie du Quattrocento ! Epoque rayonnante et sanglante... L''aristocratie s''adonne avec passion à la magie. Noire, de préférence. Maître Beneforte, orfèvre attitré du duc Sandrino et grand mage à ses heures, connaît bien les dangers de cet art. C''est pourquoi, malgré les dons manifestes de sa fille Fiametta, il refuse de l''initier. Il ne sait pas encore à quel point il a tort ! Car bientôt l''ambitieux Ferrante de Losimo renverse le duc, s''empare du pouvoir. Intrigues, crimes, sorcellerie... désormais le Mal va régner en maître. Mais Ferrante veut plus encore : pour être tout-puissant, il lui faut emprisonner dans l''anneau magique l''âme d''un grand homme. Celle de Maître Beneforte, justement... Fiametta, malgré son courage et ses dons de magicienne, parviendra-t-elle à déjouer ce dessein démoniaque ? A faire triompher le Bien ?

An anthology of science fiction stories features women in military roles

A collection of short stories, four essays and two novellas - the title story "Dreamweaver''s Dilemma" and "The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment".

Washed out of the Barrayaran Military Academy for health reasons, Miles Vorkosigan uses his unorthodox leadership talents to acquire a fleet of ships and take command of a force of spaceborne mercenaries with the help of his secret alter ego, Admiral Naismith.

Les épreuves physiques de l''examen d''entrée à l''Académie militaire, pour un nabot aux os fragiles comme du verre, c''est l''enfer : en sautant d''un mur, Miles se casse les deux jambes et voit s''effondrer ses espoirs de servir l''empereur de Barrayar. Un avenir morne s''ouvre devant lui. Morne ? Ce serait mal le connaître ! Elena, la belle Elena, la fille de l''affreux Bothari, a envie de retrouver sa mère. Qu''à cela ne tienne : Miles organise un voyage sur la colonie de Beta. Où il achète un vaisseau. Où il engage un pilote et un déserteur, ex-officier de l''empereur. Où il se fait passer pour le chef des mercenaires. Dendarii... Ils n''existent pas ? Aucune importance ! Ils ne tarderont pas à devenir bien réels. Oui, mais il va falloir les payer. Or Miles n''a pas un sou. Il n''a même pas réglé la reconnaissance de dette qu''il a signée pour acheter son vaisseau ! A défaut d''argent, on a intérêt à avoir du génie. Et du génie, cet avorton en a décidément à revendre.

Cetaganda is the latest installment of the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally - apparently a suicide, but there are rumors - Miles and Ivan find themselves in the thick of it. Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture. Meanwhile, handsome and lascivious Ivan manages to get himself involved with several women at the same time - all of whom are TROUBLE from the word go. Miles had always wanted to save the Empire - it was just that the Cetagandan wasn''t exactly the empire he''d had in mind...

"Follow[s] the life of Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith from the day she met her then-enemy Lord Aral Vorkosigan through the boyhood of her son Miles"--P. [4] of cover.

Mark est revenu. Mark, le clone-jumeau de Miles. Mark le fou errant. Et, pour fêter son retour, il a volé aux Dendariis un navire de guerre ainsi qu''un commando entier, en se faisant passer pour Miles. Armé jusqu''aux dents, il fonce à présent vers l''Ensemble de Jackson. Miles Naismith se lance à la poursuite de son double. En aveugle, sans savoir ce qui l''attend... En fait, un raid démentiel. Trafic de clones, transplantations de cerveaux... Avec, au bout du voyage, la mort. La mort pour Miles et la folie pour Mark. Est-ce la fin de l''histoire ? Non, car la mort, pour un Vorkosigan, n''est pas irréversible : on peut le ramener à la vie. A condition de retrouver son corps...

Bujold''s The Vor Game was a 1991 Hugo winner, and her most recent novel, Barrayar, is a Nebula Award finalist. The daughter of a legendary creator of enchanted art objects, Fiametta wanted desperately to use the magic inside her, but her father would have none of it. But alle flash of a dagger, and soon father and daughter were running for their lives.

Etre officier à bord du Prince Serg, le vaisseau spatial le plus moderne de l''empire de Barrayar, tel est le rêve de Miles Vorkosigan. Mais auparavant, il doit remplir honorablement sa première mission, à la station météo de l''île Kyril. Le plus dur, ce n''est pas tant le froid polaire qui règne sur l''île. Non le problème, ce sont les moqueries des autres officiers. Il faut dire qu''avec sa taille -à peine un mètre trente-, Miles ne passe pas... inaperçu ! Mais le pire, c''est le général Metzov, le chef de la vase. Un forcené de l''autorité. A cause de lui, Miles est accusé de mutinerie et renvoyé dans la capitale. C''est faux, bien sûr, mais pour Miles, mieux vaut se faire discret, du moins pendant quelque temps. Carrière brisée ? Non, car ce nabot surdoué a plus d''un tour dans son sac à dos !

Dr. Ethan Urquhart, chief biologist from the all-male world of Athos, must travel to other planets in search of new genetic material, as their current supply of ovarian tissue is no longer viable. Ethan encounters what to him is practically an alien species -- women! -- and also finds himself hunted by Cetagandan ghem lords and helped out by Miles'' Dendarii officer Elli Quinn. "The plot-driven story moves swiftly and will engage sf fans of all sub-genres ... Bujold continues to prove what marvels genius can create out of basic space operatics.” - Library Journal “Bujold is not just a master of plot, she is a master of emotion.” - SF Site “Bujold is one of the best writers of SF adventure to come along in years.” - Locus Magazine “A superb craftsman and stylist, Ms. Bujold is well on her way to becoming one of the great voices of speculative fiction.” - Rave Reviews “Bujold has a gift, nearly unique in science fiction, for the comedy of manners.” - Chicago Sun Times “Superb far-future saga.” - Publishers Weekly on the ''Vorkosigan'' series about the author: Lois McMaster Bujold was born in 1949, the daughter of an engineering professor at Ohio State University, from whom she picked up her early interest in science fiction. She now lives in Minneapolis, and has two grown children. She began writing with the aim of professional publication in 1982. She wrote three novels in three years; in October of 1985, all three sold to Baen Books, launching her career. Bujold went on to write many other books for Baen, mostly featuring her popular character Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, his family, friends, and enemies. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. Her fantasy from Eos includes the award-winning Chalion series and the Sharing Knife series.