The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

In 2011 Lois McMaster Bujold was awarded the Skylark Award. Labyrinth (1989)—First publiLois McMaster Bujoldd in Analog magazine; included in Borders of Infinity. It centers on a catastrophic dinner party with misunderstandings and dialogue justifying the subtitle "A Comedy of Biology and Manners".

In 2011 Lois McMaster Bujold was awarded the Skylark Award. The bulk of Bujold's works are part of three separate book series: the Vorkosigan Saga the Chalion Series and the Sharing Knife series. Lois McMaster Bujold (last name pronounced phonetically in American English as "Bu-Jold"; born November 2 1949 in Columbus Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works.