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Summary: Perfect escapist fare
Review: The Warrior's Apprentice is the first Vorkosigan adventure I've read. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine, who urged me to read this book first. I couldn't agree more - this episode serves as an excellent introduction to our hero, Miles Vorkosigan, and to his world. It's a fast-paced account of his first adventure away from home, and I found myself so enjoying the book that I was almost trying to turn pages before finishing them!I, too, recommend The Warrior's Apprentice as the first Miles Vorkosigan book to read. It's primarily action, but I didn't find this to detract from its charms.
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Summary: Miles kicks off
Review: The Warrior's Apprentice is the third book in Vorkosigan series - if you're going by internal chronology - and the first book with Miles as the main character. Although Shards of Honor is excellent, and Barrayar is quite good, Warrior's Apprentice is where this series really takes flight. Miles is one of the classic characters of modern SF - Bujold has created someone who is exceptional in many ways (brilliant strategist, painfully intelligent, lucky as hell) and who is still likeable, because she allows him to have flaws and weaknesses - quite a few of them, in fact. Unlike, for example, Honor Harrington in David Weber's series, Miles is fully three-dimensional, and such a fascinating guy that it would be interesting to read *anything* about him. In Warrior's, Miles' character is still developing. He's on a trip to his mother's homeworld after failing the entrance exam for the Imperial Military Academy when he decides to intervene in a Betan police problem. This leads, inevitably, to his involvement in another system's civil war. Will Miles be able to hold together his fictious group of mercenaries, keep track of his prisoners, earn enough money to redeem his mortgaged land, win the girl, and get back to Beta Colony before his parents find out what he's doing? (He gets himself into situations like this all the time - that's Miles for you.) In my opinion, the best Vorkosigan books are those that focus on character development rather than plot - ones like Shards of Honor, Warrior's Apprentice, and Memory. In these, the plot is still strong, but it is interwoven with the building of a new character or a new aspect of a familiar one, and that is where Bujold really shines. If you're just starting out with Lois Bujold, Warrior's Apprentice is a good place to start, despite its chronological position. And if you haven't read this book yet, I envy you - you've got quite a treat in store.
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Summary: Fun
Review: This book is a lot of fun to read, though I must say is not the best of Bujold's works. It's a little bit less, for lack of a better word, intelligent than The Vor Game for example. But it's not a dumb book, either. It's witty, intelligent, and a lot of fun to read, just not as much so as her other stuff.
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Summary: Fantastically Written!!
Review: This book is exceptionally well written. Bujold has written a book that captures the reader and takes them on a true adventure. Miles is a well rounded main character (read Bujold's other Vorkosigan books) who doesn't dwell on all of his 'shortcomings', but instead forges on into the thick of things. I especially like how well this book flows -- it seems so natural for Miles to go from military service exams, to vacation, to Admiral Naismith, and finally to end up as Lord Vorkosigan.
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Summary: Commanding!
Review: This books inspires the hidden leader in all of us. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Miles Vorkosigan represents that human side of us which strives to rise above adversity and yet remains always and compellingly human. For any fan of David Weber's Honor Harrington, I strongly recommend any of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga
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Summary: Space opera as literature
Review: This is a collective review of the whole Vorkosigan series. These ferociously entertaining novels are classic space opera: militaristic interstellar empires, weird cultures, ray guns, the whole nine yards. But they are space opera of an eerily professional grade -- imagine Smores by a 3-star chef. And their characters and themes are quite out of the usual range. The main hero, for instance, is a driven genius compensating for severe physical disabilities, with the writing good enough that both the genius and the compulsion are believable. In short, you can make lasting peace with your inner fourteen year old.
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Summary: A fantastically fun romp
Review: This is a real break from the typical sci-fi story of supermen; Miles Vorkosigan isn't handsome or strong, but he is smart and charismatic. The challenge of writing such a character is great, and Bujold carries it off with style. It's worth a read.
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Summary: The Definitive Miles Vorkosigan Story
Review: This is definitely the best introductuion to Miles for anyone who is not familiar with the series. It tells the story of how his double life got started, and helps to set the scene for all of his later adventures. "The Warrior's Apprentice" has something for all audiences--far-future politics, romance, drama, intrigue, and danger. It's definitely among the best in the series--one of those you'll end up reading at midnight because it's too hard to put down. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good adventure.
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Summary: Miles Vorkosigan begins his legendary career.
Review: This science fiction novel deals with the start of the military and mercenary career of Miles Vorkosigan, son of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan of the planet Barrayar. The assassination attempt made at the end of the novel "Barrayar" (1991) has given Miles a stunted growth and very brittle bones. He is now seventeen years old and tries to qualify for Barrayar's military school but fails. Then, during a vacation on another planet, he finds himself involved in an interplanetary war in which he improvises a mercenary force. Later, upon returning to Barrayar, he finds himself the focus of a plot to destroy the political power of his father. The book, as are most of the books in the Vorkosigan series, are very quickly read and most fans of space operas or of science/military fiction really enjoy them.
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Summary: Space...ummmm...opretta?
Review: This takes all those hoary old SF space operas and sets them on their ears. Our hero wins by brains and craftiness, and doesn't get the girl. Miles is a well-drawn, fully rounded character, as are all the people around him. Well written, tightly plotted, funny without turning into a sitcom
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