Meanings
- slanglifestyleThe fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
Athos and Cetaganda are the two worlds of the Vorkosiverse most reliant on uterine replicator births.
2020, Ally Wolfe, “Womb with a View: Ectogenesis in Ethan of Athos and Brave New World”, in Regina Yung Lee, Una McCormack, editors, Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold, page 2012 more examples
Lois McMaster Bujold's science fiction series that takes place in the "Vorkosiverse" is excellent for many reasons.
2008, Tora K. Smulders-Srinivasan, "Biology in the Vorkosiverse and Today", in The Vorkosigan Companion (John Helfers & Lillian Stewart Carl), unnumbered pageThe 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.
2013, John Lennard, “(Absent) Gods and Sharing Knives: The Purposes of Lois McMaster Bujold's Fantastic Ir/Religions”, in Janet Brennan Croft, editor, Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 173
Origin
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