Biology and Manners

Thisvolume of essays continues the establishment of Lois McMaster Bujold as an importantauthor of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. It argues persuasively thatBujold's corpus spans the distance between two full arcs of US feminism, andhas anticipated or responded to several of its current concerns in ways thatinvite or even require theoretical exploration.  The fourteen essays collected here provide wide-ranging scholarly analysesof Bujold’s work and worlds so far, covering not only