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Lois McMaster Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold is an American writer, novelist, and science fiction writer. Born on November 2, 1949, in Columbus, she holds United States citizenship and was educated at Ohio State University. Her literary work spans the science fiction and fantasy genres, with her most notable work being The Vorkosigan Saga.
Bujold has received several major awards, including the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novella, and the Hugo Award for Best Series. She has also been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Hugo Award for Best Novella, the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. Among her other works are Vorkosigan's Game, Borders of Infinity, and The Mountains of Mourning.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 November 1949
- Works
- 123
Top works
- Resisim shel kavod
- Vorkosigans game
- Barayar
- Vorkosigan's Game
- VORKOSIGAN'S GAME The Vor Game, Borders of Infinity, and , The Mountains of Mourning
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1949-11-02
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 457
- Total plays
- 13,801
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,779x
- An Integrated TCGA Pan-Cancer Clinical Data Resource to Drive High-Quality Survival Outcome Analytics
· 2018 · cited 3,148x
- <i>K-ras</i>
Mutations and Benefit from Cetuximab in Advanced Colorectal Cancer
· 2008 · cited 3,002x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy
· 2012 · cited 2,927x
- Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas
· 2018 · cited 2,816x
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Quotes
- “It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”
- “I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better — when you can get it.”
- “Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.”
- “I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.”
- “I am a shy person when allowed. I regard a lot of the PR — s, speeches, appearances, media interviews — with much the same dismay as a non-swimming parent would contemplate the prospect of jumping into a raging torrent to rescue their child. One doesn't really see how any good can come of it, but one can't not jump. ("My baby book, help, it is drowning!") I need to get in touch with my surly side more, I suppose, to learn to say "no" to nice people who like me.”
- “There’s an awful a lot of gaming of the list that goes on in book promotion, where you try to make everybody aware of your book at the same time, try to get them to buy it, get it noticed, get it visible. Which is kind of the opposite of the way I’ve written. I’ve not written bestsellers, I’ve written evergreens. Every book I’ve ever written is still in print.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Lois Joy McMaster , ( 1949-11-02 ) November 2, 1949 (age 76) , Columbus, Ohio , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Nationality
- American
- Alma mater
- Ohio State University
- Period
- 1985–present
- Genre
- Science fiction , fantasy
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lois McMaster Bujold (/buːˈʒoʊld/ boo-ZHOHLD ; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a physically impaired interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in the future. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019.
The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three series: the Vorkosigan Saga and two fantasy series, the World of the Five Gods and the Sharing Knife. Her Vorkosigan novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and her fourth Hugo and second Nebula were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. She has won two Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lois McMaster Bujold” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.