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	Fictionwise eBooks: Barrayar [A Vorkosigan Novel] by Lois McMaster Bujold
		Cordelia Naismith has deserted her home planet and a career in astrocartography for her husband Aral Vorkosigan, who has just been appointed Regent of Barrayar by the dying Emperor.
		She hadn't married the Regent of Barrayar, four months back.
		Well, I guarantee I have no desire whatsoever to be Empress of Barrayar.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/Ebook1196.htm (2631 words)

	People and Places of Barrayar Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Galactics often have an odd view of Barrayar.
		Kilometers of cemented cities lie surrounded by far more kilometers of farms, forests, mountains, and rivers stretching out to sparkling seas.
		This site is designed to help sentient beings, thinking of traveling or perhaps moving to Barrayar, get a better idea of our history and culture.
	pw1.netcom.com /~fresne/barrayar.htm (135 words)

	Vorkosigan Saga
		Barrayar was eventually rediscovered by a different wormhole route connecting to the rich merchant planet Komarr.
		Miles and Ivan are sent to the homeworld of the Cetagandan Empire to represent Barrayar at an Imperial funeral.
		Ekaterin returns to Barrayar to stay with her aunt and uncle and train to fulfil her ambition of becoming a landscape designer.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Vorkosigan_Saga.php (4997 words)

	Barrayar - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barrayar is Earthlike, but has vegetation that is inedible for humans and Earth-descended life; terraforming is necessary for settlement.
		The whole setup is not unlike early-Meiji-era Japan, particularly since Barrayar was isolated from the rest of the known galaxy for many centuries, and devolved into a semi-medieval level of technology.
		This gave Barrayar a very militaristic reputation in the rest of the civilized galaxy, not unlike Prussia or pre-1945 Japan.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Barrayar (266 words)

	Lois McMaster Bujold
		Barrayar is weighted down considerably by mainly being a straightforward telling of important pieces of backstory related in the Miles novels: An assassination attempt on Aral with a deadly gas results in Miles being contaminated in utero, and eventually being born with dangerously brittle bones.
		As Barrayar's culture includes a strong military component, Miles is expected to enter the military academy, but his body betrays him and he is unable to gain admission, despite his sharp mind and ability to think on his feet.
		But eventually, back on Barrayar, he is able to come clean to the people who truly count, and although he is forced to leave the Dendarii and the fruits of his efforts behind, he is rewarded with what he wanted in the first place: Admission to the Barrayaran military academy.
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/sf/bujold_lois_mcmaster (9119 words)

	Book Information: Barrayar :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		'Barrayar' beginning a day after the end of that earlier novel.
		Her husband is asked to serve as Regent for the child emperor of Barrayar and both Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan have to deal with the plots and palace intrigues of their foes.
		An assassination attempt fails but seriously affects the growth and development of their unborn child, who will be the main character in most of the other volumes in the series.
	www.iblist.com /book277.htm (216 words)

	Barrayar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Map of Barrayar Fan's maps of the planet Barrayar, together with the quotes he used as their basis.
		The Barrayar Series A discussion of the author's science fiction works with short reviews of each title.
		Lois McMaster Bujold Featured Review A review of "Memory" with links to reviews of "Barrayar", "Cetaganda", "Cordelia's Honor" and a second opinion on "Memory".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Barrayar.html (138 words)

	Barrayar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barrayar is Earth-like, but its vegetation is inedible for humans and Earth-descended life; terraforming is necessary for settlement.
		The whole setup is not unlike early-Meiji-era Japan, particularly since Barrayar was isolated from the rest of the known galaxy for many centuries, and devolved into a quasi-medieval level of technology.
		After the Cetagandans were defeated, Barrayar was determined not to allow this to happen again, and conquered Komarr, the planet that controlled the only wormhole that allowed access to Barrayar; the Komarrans had accepted bribes from the Cetagandans to allow their invasion fleets to pass through the wormhole.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DBarrayar%26type%3Den (451 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Barrayar / Lois McMaster Bujold
		Though a handful of novels in the Vorkosigan saga separate them in their publication order, Barrayar is the direct sequel to Shards of Honor and depicts the birth of Miles against a backdrop of insurrection and civil war.
		This causes added friction between herself and her father-in-law, for in Barrayar's culture, cripples (which is the best the baby could hope to be even if it survives) are held in shame and disdain.
		Many times she overtly regrets her decision to emigrate to Barrayar, whose warmongering customs are so alien and repugnant to her, even though she dearly loves her husband and knows there is no home on Beta for her to go back to.
	www.sfreviews.net /barrayar.html (767 words)

	Amazon.ca: Barrayar: Books: Lois McMaster (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The only thing that keeps Barrayar from being a candidate for an Earphones Award is the whiny falsetto voices used for Miles and Gregor in their minuscule appearances as children.
		Barrayar is an outstanding work in the universe of the now well known Miles Naismith Vorkosigan.
		Barrayar is a planet with a history of political violence, intrigue, assassination, and sheer chicanery that rivals any of the medieval governments of Earth.
	www.amazon.ca /Barrayar-Lois-McMaster/dp/1885585012 (1036 words)

	Ex Libris Reviews: 1 January 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barrayar has no good galactic reputation after its bloody conquest of the planet Komarr; and Aral, the admiral in command of the invasion, is widely known as the "Butcher of Komarr".
		Barrayar was originally settled by slower-than-light colony ships; after the initial landfall, the planet spent hundreds of years in the Time of Isolation, a period which ended only after jumpship technology was developed.
		During the long years of Barrayar's isolation from the rest of the galaxy, life was a primitive, low-tech struggle against a hostile environment.
	wjduquette.com /exlibris/ex20020101.html (6267 words)

	Barrayar
		Barrayar is Earth-like, but its vegetation is inedible for humans and Earth-descended life; terraforming is necessary for settlement.
		The whole setup is not unlike early-Meiji-era Japan, particularly since Barrayar was isolated from the rest of the known galaxy for many centuries, and devolved into a quasi-medieval level of technology.
		After the Cetagandans were defeated, Barrayar was determined not to allow this to happen again, and conquered Komarr, the planet that controlled the only wormhole that allowed access to Barrayar; the Komarrans had accepted bribes from the Cetagandans to allow their invasion fleets to pass through the wormhole.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Barrayar.php (486 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Shards of Honor / Lois McMaster Bujold
		Cordelia's team has been attacked by the Barrayarans, and at first her reaction to Vorkosigan is naturally hostile; Barrayar and Beta are not, after all, in a state of war so far as she knows.
		In the ensuing months, as the war between Barrayar and Escobar progresses and Beta is forced to choose sides, Cordelia finds her own sense of honor tested as she realizes that her government at home is every bit as willing to treat her like a pawn as is Vorkosigan's.
		And the political machinations on Barrayar go even further than she realized; the pretext for the invasion of Escobar hits much closer to home for Vorkosigan, in a way from which his honor may never recover.
	www.sfreviews.net /shardsofhonor.html (763 words)

	Raven's Reviews: Lois McMaster Bujold
		Barrayar is the story of how Miles became deformed through a gas attack on Cordelia while she is pregnant.
		Suddenly a civil war breaks out on Barrayar, and Aral is at the center, as the Regent and sworn protector of child-Emporer Gregor.
		Miles visits the planet in order to act as Barrayar's emissary to the funeral of the dowager Empress, but finds himself framed for a murder and under attack from the unlikliest angles.
	tatooine.fortunecity.com /leguin/405/fl/loisb.html (2290 words)

	Epinions.com - Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga: A Thematic Concordance and Chronology
		He remains loyal to Barrayar, however, and unbeknownst to the Dendarii, places the mercenaries at the disposal of the Empire.
		Barrayar makes clear Cordelia's acceptance of her husband's past sexuality, and in Mirror Dance she analyzes Aral’s preferences for the benefit of Mark, who has been imbued with a subliminal homophobia.
		Barrayaran intolerance for mutation and weakness is further explored in Barrayar and "The Mountains of Mourning," and troubles the Vorsoisson family in Komarr.
	www.epinions.com /content_4838039684 (4436 words)

	LMB Fan-fiction - "Dynasty of the Butchers"
		She was imprisoned by Barrayars, turned round by them later and then entrusted with some espionage mission.
		The Barrayar's Fleet advanced to a self-murdering attack which turned to be the last one for lots of Barrayars, for the entire Supreme Command Unit, and for the Crown Prince - the elimination of the latter being the main goal of The Butcher.
		According to cruel Barrayar traditions no mutants had right to live, so all misshapen new-borns had to be killed by their mothers immediately after birth.
	lavka.lib.ru /bujold/butchers_e.htm (2355 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Barrayar at Epinions.com
		Like most totalitarian regimes, Barrayar is far less stable than one might first assume, and it doesn't take long for the assassination attempts to begin.
		Aral's secretary, Koudelka, is a maimed soldier who struggles to adjust to being crippled in a society where deformity and handicap are typically met with shame or extermination.
		She is supported by excellent secondary characters who matter to Cordelia, to the story, and to the reader.
	www.epinions.com /content_231262948996 (1076 words)

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		Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasion ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan.
		But when the Emperor died, Aral became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar —and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of Earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology.
		Barrayar won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year.
	www.baen.com /chapters/W200307/0671578286__c_.htm (407 words)

	Amazon.de: Cordelia's Honor (Hugo Winners): English Books: Lois McMaster Bujold (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Granted, there are moments, especially in "Barrayar", where she comes across as some sort of super-woman who just has to come, see and conquer any trouble she encounters but Bujold nevertheless manages to keep her human with every failure and virtue attached to the word.
		It sets the ground, introduces some of the key players on Barrayar (one of the reasons I reread "Warrior's Apprentice" after finishing this one) and is, plain simple, a wonderful book full of interesting characters that are allowed to retain their humanity with all its failures, and a romance that's handled beautifully in its subtlety.
		The second half of "Cordelia's Honor," "Barrayar" (which won the Hugo Award), is the story of the incredible effect Cordelia had on Vorkosigan's warrior planet, Barrayar, and how she stopped the civil war that threatened to slag down the planet.
	www.amazon.de /Cordelias-Honor-Winners-McMaster-Bujold/dp/0671578286 (1324 words)

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		Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasion ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan.
		But when the Emperor died, Aral became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of Earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology.
		Barrayar won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year.
	www.webscription.net /chapters/0671578286/0671578286__c_.htm (407 words)

	LMB Fan Art: Map of Barrayar
		This is only one hemisphere of Barrayar, approximately from 90 deg W to 90 deg E, and 75 deg S to 75 deg N. Note 2:
		The map shows the natural Earth-type climate zones that might have existed on Barrayar before the colonization, and before terraforming and agriculture influenced the vegetation.
		Notice that the map shows Earth-like climate types, on Barrayar the equivalents of "temperate forest", "savannah" and "steppe" might be "scrubland", "semi-dry scrubland" and "dry scrubland", respectively.
	hem.passagen.se /bohjohan/books/barrayar.htm (456 words)

	Amazon.com: Barrayar: Books: Lois McMaster Bujold
		Carol Cowan and Michael Hanson contribute a stellar performance in the continuing saga of the Vorkosigan family in this sequel to Shards of Honor.
		The different voices enhance Bujold's compelling tale of politics, palace coups and a daring rescue on the recently feudal planet Barrayar.
		The only thing that keeps Barrayar from being a candidate for an Earphones Award is the whiny falsetto voices used for Miles and Gregor in their minuscule appearances as children.
	www.amazon.com /Barrayar-Lois-McMaster-Bujold/dp/067172083X (329 words)

	Barrayar: Lois McMaster Bujold [Review © T Brown, 1994] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barrayar continues the story of Cordelia Naismith Vorskigan (mother of the more famous Miles) which was begun in Shards of Honour.
		Cordelia has retired from her command in the Betan Expeditionary Force to marry Lord Aral Vorskigan, commander of the opposing forces during the Betan-Barrayan wars; she has returned to Barrayar with him, and now she’s homesick, frustrated and pregnant.
		Barrayar’s society is primitive, almost feudal, compared to Beta Colony; medical science has a lot of catching up to do, and the weather isn’t too great either.
	www.avnet.co.uk /amaranth/Critic/bujold1.htm (297 words)

	Prince Serg's Secret
		While Miles was away on Escobar, after the assassination attempt, Gregor connected his rage at Barrayar to something crucial.
		He knew enough of the Vorbarra family history to know that of all the Vor, they had been the most powerful -- and also had produced the insanity responsible for much of Barrayar's bloody history, and he carried their legacy in his genes.
		Gregor had wondered how long it would take until his own impulses revealed themselves through a similar perversion; he already knew that his sexual inclinations were not the sort allowed of Emperors, or indeed almost any Barrayaran, at least not publicly.
	www.lse.org /~quietann/serg.html (1107 words)

	Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold - Książki - Prószyński i S-ka
		Barrayar - Lois McMaster Bujold - Książki - Prószyński i S-ka
		1949) od lat tworzy powieści, których akcja obraca się wokół planety Barrayar i członków rodu Vorkosiganów.
		Barrayar, który zdobył nagrodę HUGO w 1992 roku, to drugi tom cyklu barrayarskiego.
	www.proszynski.pl /asp/fiszka.asp?ksiazka_id=249 (164 words)

	Epinions Recent Reviews for Barrayar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Barrayar: By this act, I bring one death into the world.
		Says Cordelia to her unborn child, poisoned in her womb, "Welcome, my son, to Barrayar, the abode of cannibals; this place didn't even wait the usual eighteen or twenty years to eat you." Ravenous planet.
		Barrayar was the first book of hers to come out andquot;newandquot; after I started reading the series...
	rss.epinions.com /rss/linkin_id-8003929/product-717924635521 (372 words)

	Possibilities
		It would be a service to Barrayar only because it would be a service to me...
		Whatever annoying thoughts of Barrayar Gregor had been having vanished, for a moment.
		I spent most of the past six weeks thinking about the Imperium because believe it or not, that was actually a little easier.
	www.lse.org /~quietann/possibilities.html (1062 words)

	Romane SciFi - Barrayar 2: Der junge Miles - Rezension bei drosi.de
		Barrayar spielt in ferner Zukunft, die Menschheit beherrscht bereits die überlichtschnelle Raumfahrt, Wurmlöcher dienen als Sprungtore in ferne Sonnensysteme.
		Zuhause auf Barrayar sorgt dies für Aufruhr, man will Miles Vater vorwerfen, sein Sohn stelle eine Söldnerarmee auf, was dem Gesetze nach nicht erlaubt ist und mit dem Tode bestraft werden muss.
		In den rückständigen Gebieten Barrayars werden missgebildete Kinder nach wie vor getötet (Barrayar erlebte einen Atomkrieg, mutierte Neugeborene wurden in der Vergangenheit bereits bei der Geburt beseitigt).
	www.drosi.de /rezension/3-45352-014-9.htm (1392 words)

	Primary Sources: Reviews of Gameable Fiction
		Barrayar itself is an Earth like world with a feudal culture.
		Long isolated from the galactic mainstream, Barrayar is adapting painfully and often unwillingly.
		A system may be "connected" to one other system, or to several -- or to none, in which case it won't be visited.
	www.sjgames.com /gurps/Roleplayer/Roleplayer24/PrimarySources24.html (1663 words)

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