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Summary: A collection of short stories in the Vorkosigan series.
Review: This is a collection of short-stories in the Miles Vorkosigan space opera series. Each story takes place at a different point in Miles' career. One of these stories, "The Mountains of Mourning" (1989), where Miles has to deal with the prejudices of his own planet, won a Nebula Award for best science fiction short story of the year. If I could, I would probably award the book three-and-a-half stars.
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Summary: Excellent, thoughtful science-fiction adventure stories
Review: This is a collection of stories featuring Miles Vorkosigan. If you haven't encountered Miles before, this is probably the best place to start. Deformed but brilliant, Miles is an aristocrat born into a culture where "aristocracy" still means "duty" rather than "privilege". Unfortunately, it's also a culture that views the handicapped as mutants, objects of hatred and contempt. Miles is forced to challenge, again and again, the preconceptions of those around him. These are brilliant stories, written with wit, insight, and a strong sense of the tragicomic. "Mountains of Mourning" won a Hugo, I think, and one of the others was nominated. Even if you don't like science fiction, you can still enjoy this book thoroughly. If you *do* like sf, you absolutely need to have this book. Bujold's unadorned prose style has been compared to "Heinlein without the preaching", but this may be unfair... to Bujold. See for yourself why this woman keeps winning SF writing awards. Buy this book
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Summary: Interesting...
Review: This is quite a good collection of short stories, and I enjoyed it. "Borders of infinity", the title story, is tragic, but very well written.I also liked the other stories a great deal. Only one draw back - the narrative between the stories - the "reason" for telling the stories - is to me rather flat and unneccessary. To me, it would have been better just to have the stories without any "in between" patter. After all, they can more than stand on their own.
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Summary: Read Me!
Review: This is the complicated book of the lot. It's short stories, which take place in various times throughout the series. I recommend reading them in the time-order of the series, not when the book shows up in the series. I mean, read "The mountains of Mourning" after "The Warrior's Apprentice" but before "The Vor Game", etc. These stories fit together so tightly and seamlessly that you might as well just consider the whole series one long book, and read it that way; just think of the individual books as bite-sized packages for the larger story. Shards of Honor
Barayar
(these two books are also combined into "Cordelia's Honor")
The Warrior's Apprentice
Short Story: The Mountains of Mourning
(all short stories are contained in "Borders of Infinity")
The Vor Game
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Short Story: Labyrinth
Short Story: The Borders of Infinity
Brothers in Arms
The Borders of Infinity
Mirror Dance
Memory
Komarr
A Civil Campaign
Diplomatic Immunity Now go forth and read...
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Summary: more a collection than a novel
Review: This wasn't my style because of the structure. It consists of several "adventures" like long short stories, butted together as Miles muses while recuperating from his latest.
I want more continuity and more essential connections between the parts of the book.
Still, as a short stories collections go, it was fine.
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