Shards of Honor, written by Lois McMaster Bujold and published by Baen Books in 1986, is both the first book published and the first book chronologically of the main sequence of the Vorkosigan Saga. The epilogue "Aftermaths" was actually published first, in Baen's Far Frontiers, Volume V, Spring 1986. The story has also been collected in the omnibus edition Cordelia's Honor. Chronologically, the events of Shards of Honor fall approximately one year before the birth of Miles Vorkosigan; the tale describes the circumstances of the meeting of his parents Aral Vorkosigan and Cordelia Naismith.