Lois McMaster BujoldBarrayarPublished: 1991Hugo Award for Best Novel, 1992 — Nebula Award for Best Novel, 1992 — Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, 1992 — Anarchy threatens Barrayar when the emperor dies leaving his five-year-old son as heir, and only one man, Aral Vorkosigan, and his extraordinary wife, Cordelia Naismith, can keep the empire united
