Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold is an acclaimed American science fiction and fantasy writer, winner of seven Hugo awards and four Nebula awards. Bujold was highly successful in creating science fictions novels in a recurring universe with recurring characters. She has created several recurring worlds, but the most successful was her first, the Vorkosigan series, consisting of more than two dozen novels which center on two or three major characters related to each other over two generations. The first novel of that series appeared in 1986, and that she seems to have wrapped it up in 2016. Although not written in order of the chronology within their universe, are now recommended to be read in their in-universe chronological order.