![]() ![]() It’s heart-wrenching, this bittersweet moment when a mother meets her child. One of Cordelia’s friends in the book, in the midst of open urban warfare, gives birth in a shed after her husband has been shot. Children are a blessing, but they do not come without cost. The book does not shy away from the ugliness and pain of bringing children into the world - and nor does it get bogged down in the very real horror of it either. Bujold had two young children when she wrote BARRAYAR it shows in the intimacy with which she touches on issues relevant to pregnant women and parents. The beginning of Cordelia’s journey through motherhood is fraught, to say the least.īARRAYAR is refreshing because it reflects of what motherhood can look like in a science-fiction future, without diluting the main character into “just” a mother. She undergoes a traumatic c-section to transfer her son into a uterine replicator, where doctors attempt treatments that may minimize the damage. ![]() Their son will be profoundly physically handicapped, and Barrayar has a long and ugly history of infanticide when it comes to birth defects. Cordelia and her husband are poisoned by a political enemy - a poison that causes teratogenic damage to their unborn son. Art © Scott MurphyBARRAYAR by Lois McMaster Bujold follows Cordelia Vorkosigan as she becomes a mother in a militaristic society in the middle of a political upheaval. ![]()
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