Vorkosiverse
English
Etymology
Blend of Vorkosigan + universe.
Proper noun
Vorkosiverse
- (fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
- 2008, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan, "Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today", in The Vorkosigan Companion (John Helfers & Lillian Stewart Carl), unnumbered page:
- Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series that takes place in the "Vorkosiverse" is excellent for many reasons.
- 2013, John Lennard, "(Absent) Gods and Sharing Knives: The Purposes of Lois McMaster Bujold's Fantastic Ir/Religions", in Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy (ed. Janet Brennan Croft), page 173:
- The early Vorkosiverse novels were inter alia a late-Cold War product whose Barrayarans — green-uniformed and predominantly of Russian stock — are typically atheists given to ancestor-worship.
- 2020, Ally Wolfe, "Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World", in Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold (eds. Regina Yung Lee & Una McCormack), page 201:
- Athos and Cetaganda are the two worlds of the Vorkosiverse most reliant on uterine replicator births.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Vorkosiverse.
- 2008, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan, "Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today", in The Vorkosigan Companion (John Helfers & Lillian Stewart Carl), unnumbered page: