![]() ![]() I understand that feeling, and I appreciate Bujold sharing such anecdotes. At one point, she remarks how the book was stubbornly threatening to turn into a murder mystery set entirely on Kyril island, backing off only when she altered the contents of the mysterious package Miles finds from money to cookies. ![]() She describes how the first Vorkosigan books obtained a home at Baen, and her experience preparing The Vor Game. Bujold provides a fascinating look at the genesis of the Vorkosigan saga and her career as a published author. This might be a backwards way to start a review, but I want to talk about the afterword to Young Miles first. ![]() If The Mountains of Mourning endeared me to Miles Vorkosigan and Bujold’s bizarre feudalistic society of Barrayar, then The Vor Game proves that Bujold can do with Miles what she did with Cordelia in Shards of Honour. It is bold and brash but has a deeper psychological element to it, and the combination of these components results in an extremely entertaining work of character space opera. I totally get why this won the Hugo Award in 1991. Indeed, with this book, Lois McMaster Bujold hits it out of the park. How I would react to The Vor Game was anyone’s guess, but I knew that this last story in the Young Miles omnibus would not disappoint me. So, I enjoyed The Warrior’s Apprentice, and The Mountains of Mourning made me cry. ![]()
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