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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intriguing and exciting stuff., 4 Feb 2002
Unlike many Sci-Fi authors, Bujold does not burden her readers with complex societal histories or baffle them with technobabble. Set in the indeterminately distant future where Earth seems to have been abandoned and humans inhabit a range of differing worlds (some inhabited by non-humans) linked by wormholes, Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series are simple and accessible without detracting from sophisticated plotting and excellent characterisation. In this particular novel, Miles, by now in the Imperial Service (though soon to be disgraced), becomes caught up in an increasingly dangerous heightening of interstellar tensions. Quite where the pressure is coming from, or rather, who is planning to attack who, remains unclear, and Bujold's plotting is first-rate as the reader is kept guessing along with Miles. Characters carry over from her previous Vorkosigan tale, The Warrior's Apprentice, which adds extra depth to the already well-portrayed characters, but, as I've said before, part of the beauty her writing is that you could quite happily read her novels as one-offs, without losing a great deal; conversely, to read them in order is a real treat. Intriguing and exciting stuff.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I read it 3 times, 17 May 1999
By A Customer
more or less once a year. It's amazing, a great adventure, a lot of suspence, a peculiar hero... and you laugh to death. I read almost everything that she wrote, and I loved everything, but this is one of her best.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A better game then most, 23 April 2003
After a failing the physical admission trials at the military academy, Miles takes of in to space to get away from his failure. Soon, by default, he gets involved in an extremely dangerous conflict with, and within, a mercenary fleet. He succeeds to end up on top of the situation, using his by no means small ingenuity (and luck) and comes out with a lot more then he came in with.
This story is extremely entertaining, the plot good and unforeseeable. It is nice to see that excitement can be achieved so successfully and without the world being at stack. This book is by no means simple and the story respects the characters a LOT more than is the rule in SF and fantasy. Things happen, not to further the plot but because of the reasonable actions of the characters (no stupid acts to because the story have to go in one direction or another).
Having read more then 200.000 pages of SF and fantasy this book is one I always hand out to get my friends started.
I know I could tell more about the story line but since it is for once unpredictable, I say read it instead!
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by Lois McMaster Bujold
by Lois McMaster Bujold
by Lois McMaster Bujold
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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