Sci-Fi Book Club

Cordelia's Honor, by Lois McMaster Bujold
August 23, 2011 (Barrayar Discussion)

"Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan he who was called 'The Butcher of Komarr' and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his. Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasion ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of Earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell-damaged unborn would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy. Barrayar won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year."

We've already read:
China Mountain Zhang, by Maureen McHugh
Sunrise Alley, by Catherine Asaro
Zoe's Tale, by John Scalzi
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The Female Man, by Joanna Russ
Warrior Wisewoman 3, by Roby James
Company (series), by Kage Baker
Dawn, by Octavia E. Butler
Carnival, by Elizabeth Bear
Tea from an Empty Cup, by Pat Cadigan
Virtual Girl, by Amy Thomson