She flees to Barrayar and marries Lord Vorkosigan, third in line to the throne.
Aral asks her repeatedly to marry him, but she consistently refuses until she finds that she cannot go home again. The novel takes them through battles and imprisonment, torture and disgrace.
During their shared ordeal, they are drawn to each other. Cordelia, who comes from the advanced civilization, is marooned on the unexplored planet with Vorkosigan, a product of an archaic aristocracy. The two are enemies in a war instigated by a dying emperor of Barrayar, where a feudalistic society, isolated from the galactic milieu for 500 years, has been abruptly cast back into the modern, technologically advanced culture by the discovery of a nearby wormhole. The story brings together Cordelia Naismith, captain of a small Betan starship, engaged in exploring a newly discovered planet, and Captain Lord Aral Vorkosigan, captain of a Brarrayan starship. She wrote her first novel, Shards of Honor, in 1983 and it was published in 1985. One of her earliest works, a short story, was about a single mother who puts her children into suspended animation. She started writing seriously in 1983, while working and struggling as a single mother with two young children on a very limited income. She has credited them with teaching her about birth and growth and parenthood. The marriage failed, ending in divorce, but she had two children, Anne and Paul. After college she worked as a pharmacy technician for six years until she married. She was able to participate in a six week program in East Africa, an experience that supplied her with scenery and ecology for her first novels. In college at Ohio State University Lois initially studied English, but then became interested in biology. While still in high school, she had the opportunity to spend a summer hitchhiking through Europe with her older brother, an adventure that produced many ideas for writing. She started writing in Junior High School and collaborated with a friend on a story all through high school. Lois picked them up and was very quickly hooked.
He was also an avid science fiction fan and frequently bought paperbacks and had subscriptions to several SF magazines. Robert Charles McMaster was very well known in the scientific community, editor of the most important text in the field of welding engineering. Born in Columbus, Ohio in 1949, she became a voracious reader as a child, influenced by her father, an engineering professor at Ohio State University. Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the giants of modern science fiction. Aftermath (In the Cordelia's Honor Collection)
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