

Shards of Honor came in second place for a Locus Award for Best First Novel in 1987 and was nominated for a Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel of 1986.

The Reader's Chair audio edition, published in 1996, was read by Michael Hanson and Carol Cowan.Ĭhronologically, the events of Shards of Honor fall approximately one year before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan the tale describes the circumstances of the meeting of his parents Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith. The story has also been collected in the omnibus edition Cordelia's Honor. The epilogue " Aftermaths" was actually published first, in Baen's Far Frontiers, Volume V, Spring 1986. Shards of Honor, written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen Books in 1986, is both the first book published and the first book chronologically of the main sequence of the Vorkosigan Saga.
