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The tree is up, the lights are twinkling, and every year a few friends and family members ask the same question: “What should I get the reader in my life who’s tired of the same best-sellers?”

This year, I have an embarrassingly simple answer: give them one (or all) of my novels. They’re the kind of books people actually finish, think about for...

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First published in 1999, A Civil Campaign is the twelfth novel (by internal chronology the fourteenth) in Lois McMaster Bujold’s celebrated Vorkosigan Saga. Subtitled “A Comedy of Biology and Manners,” it stands as a tonal shift from the precedi...

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I think it is worthwhile to periodically take a big picture look at your life. How did I get here? What are the patterns of my life? Such an investigation into past decades could be depressing, I suppose, but I prefer to engage in a bit of humor and self-deprecation. So here we go.

I’m perched in a café in Athens, notebook splayed open like a s...

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Here is a sneak peek from work in progress, the first volume of a science fiction trilogy entitled Seven Planets (Brightstar Trilogy, Book 1).

If you are interested in how a novel progresses through drafts, see the links below the excerpt for other drafts of this scene.

Excerpt: scene 1, chapter 1, book 1 class="wp-block-video ali...

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