Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold.

[3] The eARC was released for sale by Baen Books on October 21, 2015.

[5] Three years after the death of Aral Vorkosigan, Admiral Oliver Jole of the Sergyar Fleet (Aral's long-time subordinate and lover) receives a proposal.

At Ars Technica, Annalee Newitz declared it to be "one of the most realistic and funny novels you'll ever read about space colonization",[6] while Tor.com's Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer observed that it would be a fitting conclusion, both to Cordelia's character arc and to the Vorkosigan universe as a whole.

[7] Publishers Weekly considered it "droll" and "enjoyable", and compared it to the works of Jane Austen, but noted that it was "more comforting than exciting" and would "work best for readers who don’t expect interstellar derring-do.