

Shards of Honor is the first novel in Lois McMasters Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, various bits of which have been nominated for Hugos, Nebulas and other SFnal awards over the last 32 years.

When Cordelia Naismith and her Beta Colony survey crew are attacked on a newly-discovered world by a renegade patrol from the militaristic world of Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of the Barrayan ship and victim of a mutiny himself. Together, Aral and Cordelia must work to survive an alien ecology, deadly feudal intrigue and an uneasy mutual admiration.