# Help with Lois McMaster Bujold, please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2006, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-lois-mcmaster-bujold-please/364702 "2006-07-16T04:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-lois-mcmaster-bujold-please/364702/21 "2006-07-17T18:56:48Z")
Maybe it was “Getting Started” - an essay Bujold wrote for _Writers of the Future Volume VIII_ (1992). I don’t have a copy handy but I also seem to remember Bujold saying that her early drafts of SoH were written as a Star Trek fan fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-lois-mcmaster-bujold-please/364702/22 "2006-07-18T17:14:52Z")
God, I love these books. It’s time to read them all again. She’s got Hugo Awards up the wazoo, for _Barrayar, Mirror Dance_ (my favorite), _The Vor Game, Paladin of Souls,_ and “The Mountains of Mourning”. That’s more than Heinlein! Buncha Nebulas, too. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-lois-mcmaster-bujold-please/364702/23 "2006-08-07T17:52:40Z")
Just bumping to say that anyone and everyone who ever suggested I read Bujold is a genius. I love her in a way that borders on the unhealthy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-lois-mcmaster-bujold-please/364702.md?page=1)