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Vorkosiverse

Vorkosiverse proper noun: the fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Proper noun

Vorkosiverse

  1. (slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
    • 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 page
    • The 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...

Origin of Vorkosiverse

Blend of Vorkosigan + universe.

Questions about Vorkosiverse

What does Vorkosiverse mean?
Vorkosiverse means the fictional universe which serves as the setting for the Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.
What part of speech is Vorkosiverse?
Vorkosiverse is a proper noun.

Words near Vorkosiverse in the dictionary

  1. vorinostatin
  2. Voris
  3. Vorisek
  4. vorish
  5. vorishness
  6. Vorkosiverse
  7. Vorkuta
  8. vorlage
  9. vorlages
  10. vorlaufer
  11. vorlaufers

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