Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is a prolific and extremely popular science fiction and fantasy author. 
She is a long-time science fiction fan. She had a trib in the 2nd issue of Spockanalia "The Free Enterprise" is a humorous piece, claimed to be the underground newspaper for the Enterprise, a publication circulated by the crew. Sample articles: "Is There Really a Bridge?" and "Does Engineering Exist?") the first media fanzine, and has admitted that at least one of her characters bears a debt to her love for Kerr Avon, the anti-hero in Blake's 7. 
Together with Lillian Stewart Carl, she wrote and published the Star Trek zine Star Date and sold it at Midwestcon. For over 20 years, since October 1997, a long-running rumour about the source of the Vorkosigan stories has been firmly denied by Bujold herself. The rumour persists that the first Vorkosigan novel, Shards of Honor, started out as fan fiction about "a Klingon officer and a red-headed Federation scientist". Carl, Lillian Stewart. Through Darkest Adolescence with Lois McMaster Bujold. In S. Lewis (Ed.), Dreamweaver's Dilemma (pp. xiii-xiv). Framingham: NESFA : 
In a post to the Bujold mailing list in 1997, also in October, she said:
See also Timeline of Bujold Fandom
==Fandom Source Material==
Although Bujold has written other works (e.g. The Spirit Ring), fan activities focus on the following series: 
*Vorkosigan Saga: (currently) 15 science-fiction novels (and a couple of short stories) published between 1986 and 2010 focusing (predominantly) on the exploits of Miles Vorkosigan, his family, and companions. 
*Chalion series: (currently) three fantasy novels published between 2001 and 2005 and the Penric e-novellas (11) by late 2023.
*Sharing Knife series: (currently) four fantasy novels published between 2006 and 2009. 
Within the fan communities, overwhelmingly greater interest has been shown in the Vorkosigan Saga than in her other two series.
==Fan Communities==
More than one fan community is available for fans of Bujold's work. All fan communities welcome fans for any of Bujold’s novels: 
* The Lois-Bujold Archives (December 2001-present)
*Lois McMaster Bujold or (LM Bujold for short) is based on LiveJournal. This community focuses on discussion of the novels. It was created in February 2003, and as of January 2011 included over 600 members. It is maintained by Ambar, joyeuse13, rhye, and theatrephunk. 
*Lois McMaster Bujold Fanfic Community (link) (or bujold-fic for short) is also based on LiveJournal. This community provides a place for sharing fan-fiction set in any of Bujold's universes, of which the most popular is the Vorkosiverse. It was created in November 2005 and as of January 2011 included over 400 members. Sahiya is the community maintainer. 
*The Bujold Nexus Mailing List has been active since October 1994 and was the first resource available on the Internet for fans of Lois McMaster Bujold.
*Russian fan-community - Can anyone please help with more information about this? 
In comparison with huge fandoms like Harry Potter, the fandom for Bujold’s works is small – particularly so if one subtracts those fans whose predominant interests lie within the Vorkosigan Saga. However Bujold is still writing new novels, so there are always new fanworks produced and new meta discussions held.
== Fan Fiction in Bujold's Universes == 
Fanfiction for Bujold's works showed up almost immediately; mostly short little interstitial pieces directly connected to the novels. Slash started to appear in the early 2000s. The two most common slash pairings are Miles/Gregor and Ivan/Byerly, both from her Barrayar series of books.list of books in the Barrayar series on Wikipedia The best-known long work in the fandom is A Deeper Season, here a Gregor/Miles series of novels by sahiya and E.E. Beck.
A fan in 1995 asked: 
As per "official permission," a fan in 1997 explained: 
In 2006, Bujold was quoted in the essay Wizard Oil: 
==Archives==
*Vorkosigan fic at Archive Of Our Own
*Chalion fic at AO3
*Sharing Knife fic at AO3
==Challenges==
*Bujold Ficathon (2006–present); held in summer
*Winterfair (2011–12); held in the New Year
*Russian ficathon; held in summer/autumn
== Fans in Bujold's Universes == 
Many SF and media fans's names were used for minor characters (i.e. "Tuckerized") in the Vorkosigan saga, often under their legal names, so they're hard to link to here at Fanlore.
==Conference==
A conference on Bujold's works is being organised for August 2014.
== References ==
== External links ==
*Author home page
*Bujold discussion comm
*Bujold fic comm
*The Lois McMaster Bujold Mailing List
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