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The purpose of this guide is to help readers find English-language Vorkosiverse fanfic novels they might enjoy reading. For the purpose of this guide, a 'fanfic novel' is defined as a fanfic which is at least 40,000 words long. If there is sufficient reader interest, this guide might be expanded to cover fanfic novellas and/or long fanfic series which.
My plan is to eventually review all of the 40K+ word English-language Vorkosiverse fanfics on AO3 (except Gregor's Game) and FF.net. I will go through them in order of timeline (pre-canon first, post-canon last), yet group fanfic novels which belong to the same series together regardless of timeline.
This guide will be spoiler-free (with regards to the fanfics, NOT spoiler-free with regards to canon). If anyone wishes to make comments which contains spoilers for any of the fanfic novels, please use appropriate spoiler warnings.
You Can Make This Guide Better!
I can only offer my own opinions. And I sometimes have a minority opinion about works of fiction (i.e. there is unpopular stuff which I like, and popular stuff which I don't like).
Every Vorkosiverse fanfic novel appeals to at least some readers. Therefore, when I review fanfic novels that I dislike, I will try to do it in a way which makes it clear that other readers do enjoy it.
However, if other readers add their own opinions in the comments, that will make this guide even better! For example, if I write a glowing review of a fanfic novel which you cannot stand reading, by all means mention that in the comments. It may help readers who share your tastes from avoiding a fanfic novel they would rather not read. Likewise, if I write a negative review of a fanfic novel which you love, go ahead and post a glowing review in the comments so that readers who share your tastes will not miss on something they would also love.
One More Thing
There seems to be no correlation between how much I like a VK fanfic novel and how many kudos it has. In particular, there are some good fanfic novels which have surprisingly few kudos. Maybe I just have peculiar tastes, but I think that there are definitely some under-appreciated works. So, please don't dismiss a work just because of a lack of kudos!
And now for the first review ... Rediscovery by Scott Washburn.