„Lustrzany taniec” stanowi szczególną część sagi barrayarskiej. Powraca w niej Mark, klon-bliźniak Milesa Vorkosigana/Naismitha, który podając się za dowódcę Najemnej Floty Dendarii, przeprowadza szaleńczą akcję desantową w Obszarze Jacksona — części wszechświata, gdzie inżynieria genetyczna rozwija się bez żadnych ograniczeń. Niestety, ponosi klęskę i z pomocą musi mu pospieszyć prawdziwy admirał Naismith. Podczas odwrotu Miles zostaje zabity, ale jego śmierć daje początek lawinie wydarzeń i zaskakujących zwrotów akcji. Przed Markiem stoją nowe nieoczekiwane zadania, którym musi sprostać. Czy przyjaciele Milesa mu pomogą? Jak przyjmie go Barrayar? Czy ma szansę odciąć się od mrocznej przeszłości i przeistoczyć z genetycznej repliki Milesa w człowieka?

Bastard’s Eve is a night of celebration for most residents in the canal city of Lodi -- but not for sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona, who find themselves caught up in the affairs of a shiplost madman, a dangerous ascendant demon, and a very unexpected saint of the fifth god.This novella falls between “Penric’s Fox” and “Penric’s Mission” in the internal chronology of the Penric & Desdemona tales.

Miles Vorkosigan, petit par la taille mais grand par l’intelligence, vient de sortir de l’école militaire de Barrayar pour prendre son premier poste en temps qu’officier. Espérant être affecté sur le navire spatial « Prince Serg », il se retrouve… sur l’île Kyril, un camp d’entrainement pour l’infanterie, gelé et perdu au milieu de nulle part, ceci afin de régler ses problèmes d’obéissance envers l’autorité. Il a juste à se tenir tranquille pendant 6 mois et accepter patiemment les ordres. Mais le responsable de cette station est le dur général Metzov, dont les pratiques disciplinaires sont loin d’être académiques. Miles saura t-il se faire oublier ?

Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother was the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who has taught the Lords of Barrayar much about the perils of sexism. Even the fact that Miles is the third in line to the throne and personally owns a major chunk of his home planet would not tempt any normal person to change places with him.When assassins came to rid the world of his father, his mother, pregnant with Miles, was in the line of fire, and Miles was but an egg for the omelet in an all too literal sense. Thanks to heroic medical intervention, Miles survived his near fatal brush with war gas—as a pain-filled dwarf with bones as weak and brittle as some malign composite of chalk and glass. Miles is often mistaken for a mutant by his mutant-loathing countrymen.

Environ deux cents ans avant la naissance de Miles…Leo Graf, spécialiste des soudures en milieu spatial, est envoyé par sa compagnie dans une station orbitale pour y enseigner son art aux ingénieurs qui y vivent. Il découvre sur place une réalité déconcertante : ses élèves sont des Quaddies, des êtres dotés de quatre bras. Bien que leur « humanité » ne fasse aucun doute pour qui les côtoie, la compagnie n’entend pas conférer le moindre droit à cette main-d’oeuvre gratuite et servile. Jusqu’au jour où…Prix Nebula 1988.

Drei Jahre sind in Chalion vergangen, seit Königinwitwe Ista dy Boacia vom Fluch des Wahnsinns befreit wurde, der sie auf dem Stammsitz ihrer Familie gefangen hielt. Doch ihre neu entdeckte Freiheit ist nicht unbeschwert. Ehemann, Eltern und Sohn sind gestorben, und die Tochter lebt meilenweit entfernt am Königshof zu Cardegoss. Somit bleibt Ista allein mit ihren Schuldgefühlen und Geheimnissen — denn sie weiß, was ihr Land an den Rand des Abgrunds führte! Auf der Suche nach Absolution tritt Ista eine Pilgerfahrt an, den Göttern zur Buße und Abbitte. Aber auf sie wartet eine neue Gefahr, die größer ist, als sie ahnen kann: Erneut wird Chalion bedroht, und diesmal von einem heimtückischen Bösen, das nur Ista aufzuhalten vermag…

Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples. But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, starting with Fawn's irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn's once did. Planning to seek passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag and Fawn find themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father and fiancé, who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year earlier. They travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, and inadvertently pick up more followers: a pair of novice Lakewalker patrollers running away from an honest mistake with catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery. As the ill-assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and uncanny.

In this NOVELLA set in The World of the Five Gods and four years after the events in “Penric’s Demon”, Penric is a divine of the Bastard’s Order as well as a sorcerer and scholar, living in the palace where the Princess-Archdivine holds court. His scholarly work is interrupted when the Archdivine agrees to send Penric, in his role as sorcerer, to accompany a “Locator" of the Father’s Order, assigned to capture Inglis, a runaway shaman charged with the murder of his best friend. However, the situation they discover in the mountains is far more complex than expected. Penric’s roles as sorcerer, strategist, and counselor are all called upon before the end.

PENRIC’S DEMON

Some eight months after the events of Penric and the Shaman, Learned Penric, sorcerer and scholar, travels to Easthome, the capital of the Weald. There he again meets his friends Shaman Inglis and Locator Oswyl. When the body of a sorceress is found in the woods, Oswyl draws him into another investigation; they must all work together to uncover a mystery mixing magic, murder and the strange realities of Temple demons.

In his 30th year, Penric fell in love with light.Learned Penric, a sorcerer and divine of the Bastard's Order, travels across the sea to sunlit Cedonia on his first covert diplomatic mission, to attempt to secure the services of a disaffected Cedonian general for the Duke of Adria. However, nothing is as it seems. Penric is betrayed and thrown into a dungeon, and worse follows for the general and his kin.Penric's narrow escapes and adventures—including his interest in a young widow—are told with Bujold's remarkable energy, wit, and humor. Once again, Bujold has created unforgettable characters and a wondrous, often dangerous world of intrigue and sorcery.

Utopijna opowieść o genetycznie zmodyfikowanych ludziach, przystosowanych do życia w nieważkości. Bez kontaktu z innymi Ziemianami czworączki prowadzą sielankowy żywot, ale tylko do momentu, gdy interesy konsorcjum łożącego na projekt, w trakcie którego powstali, przestają być ich interesami.

Strzępy honoru to klasyczna space opera. Na tle wielkiej wojny międzyplanetarnej śledzimy losy Cordelii Naismith od jej pierwszego kontaktu z nieprzyjaciółmi. Co wyniknie z zetknięcia wyrafinowanej cywilizacji naukowej z wojowniczą społecznością, postępującą zgodnie z tradycją i sztywnymi zasadami honoru?

An Ekaterin Vorkosigan novella.Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique’s experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets.