For readers who want to be sure of beginning at the beginning, or who are very spoiler-sensitive, start with these two. Shards was my very first novel ever Barrayar was actually my eighth, but continues the tale the next day after the end of Shards. The first two books in the series proper, they detail the adventures of Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony and Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar. I favor internal chronological, with a few adjustments. The debate mainlyrevolves around publication order versus internal-chronological order. Many pixels have been expended debating the 'best' order in which to readwhat have come to be known as the Vorkosigan Books (or Saga), theVorkosiverse, the Miles books, and other names. I hope it will prove aninteresting companion piece to my fiction.
Sidelines:Talks and Essays is just what it says on the tin-a collection of three decades of mynonfiction writings, including convention speeches, essays, travelogues, introductions, and some less formal pieces. The novelette "Dreamweaver's Dilemma" may be of interest to Vorkosigancompletists, as it is the first story in which that proto-universebegan, mentioning Beta Colony but before Barrayar was even thought of.
The short story collection ProtoZoa contains five very early tales-three (1980s) contemporary fantasy, two science fiction-all previously published but not in this handy format. In terms of internal world chronology, The Hallowed Hunt would fall first, the Penric novellas perhaps a hundred and fifty years later, and The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls would follow a century or so after that.Ĭurrent internal chronology of the Penric & Desdemona tales is: The third is in effect an independent prequel, not sharingcharacters or setting with the other two, so readers of the priorvolumes need to adjust their expectations going in. However, the second volume certainly contains spoilersfor the first, so Curse-Paladin is the recommended readingorder. What were called the Chalion books after the setting of its first twovolumes, but which now that the geographic scope has widened I'm dubbing the World of the Five Gods, were written to be stand-alones as part of a larger whole. Nexteasiest are the four volumes of The Sharing Knife-in order, Beguilement, Legacy, Passage, and Horizon-which I broke down and actually numbered, as this is one continuous tale. Easiest of all is The Spirit Ring, which is a stand-alone, or aquel, as some wag once dubbed books thatfor some obscure reason failed to spawn a subsequent series.
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