Well, she did a heck of a job differentiating, then. It never would have occurred to me to think Klingon when reading about Barryar.
'Lineage'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I guess that's why it's not regarded as fanfic.
Interview with R.A. McAvoy.
I'm giving someone on DW reading recs, and coming up astonished that she hasn't read Bujold. I'm like: you're a geek, right? Read Bujold!
Except I haven't read the Sharing Knife sequence, because another friend tells me it's pants.
I have not read Bujold.
It's not her best. I was reading it, but I forgot if I'd read the first two or just the first one and haven't cared enough to figure it out so I'm stalled on the series. I'm pretty sure I actually own the ones I've read so eventually I will find them/it and know for sure...
P-C, you should read Bujold. If you like romance, start with Cordelia's Honor, which is a space opera romantic adventure with politics and ethical dilemmas. If you prefer to avoid romance, but like space opera and adventure, start with The Warrior's Apprentice (currently bundled with some others as Miles Errant, I think).
If you prefer fantasy, give The Curse of Chalion a try, which is a secondary-world fantasy in which the gods exist, and interfere indirectly in human affairs.
Whatever you choose, you'll find fascinating, engaging, fully human characters; believable politics; witty dialogue; fast-paced action; and great world-building. There's a reason she's won every major award the SF world can bestow on her.
And then, as is our wont whenever a new Buffista starts on the Vorkosigan series, we can have yet another conversation about which order to read the books!
If you prefer fantasy, give The Curse of Chalion a try, which is a secondary-world fantasy in which the gods exist, and interfere indirectly in human affairs.
That sounds like my bag! Although I keep hearing about that Miles Vorkosigan fellow. He is in a lot of books.
Part of my brain is telling me that I read that, but nothing on the wikipedia page is triggering memories.
The safest thing might be to just read them again.