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I want a whole series of Cordelia Naismith adventures, dammit.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold (b. 1949) American author
The Vor Game, ch. 5 (1990)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bujold-lois-mcmaster…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bujold #loismcmasterbujold #changeofmind #enemy #influence #threat #weapon #violence
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Continuing the Vorkosigan reread:
In "The Vor Game" Miles' genius is blended with more awareness of the stakes - more humility - and I find him much more appealing.
The part where he and Gregor are playing off each other to manipulate the crazy mercenary had me jumping up and down with excitement! So good 😁
Pretty much everything Miles achieves through this book is through him talking and putting himself at risk, and it's thrilling throughout.
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In "Mountains of Mourning" he is much less showy and impressive (despite some piercing insights into the people around him) but we see clearly his honour, his self-sacrifice.
This short novella (which won a Hugo and a Nebula) is key to who Miles is, and it's his personal commitment here to a dead child that ultimately turns out to be so important many books later.
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In the first we get his brilliance, his ability to inspire loyalty, his unstoppability - but also some of his greatest failures: all the deaths and lies spiral from his overconfidence and unwillingness to admit defeat. At the end he feels ashamed of the cheers of "Admiral Naismith", despite his successes.
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Continuing my unplanned Vorkosigan re-read:
"The Warrior's Apprentice" and "Mountains of Morning", the two first books about Miles Vorkosigan, and establishing very different aspects of him. (1/3)
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Lois McMaster Bujold is one of my favourite authors. I recently reread "Shards of Honor" (her debut) and its sequel (continuation?) "Barrayar".
Such excellent sci-fi, with a mature, competent, female protagonist; painful ethical decisions; vivid characterisation; beautiful romance. Situations where doing the right thing is almost impossibly hard, and you have characters who rise to that.
Read it if you get the chance!
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I am once again asking that Aidan Gallagher be cast as Miles Vorkosigan.
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@[email protected] for a change of pace, try Lois McMaster Bujold's "Curse of Chalion" and "Paladin of Souls". For a little lighter fare, Travis Baldree's "Legends and Lattes". You can thank me later :)
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“All true wealth is biological” — Count Aral #Vorkosigan
#LoisMcMasterBujold #Bujold #SciFi #SciencFiction #bookstodon @bookstodon #VorkosiganSaga #MirrorDance
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#Vorkosiverse: I Was Out Here Listening All The Time. by lannamichaels #bujold #fic #rec https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/2205962.html
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Finished the audiobook of Bujold’s *The Assassin’s of Thasalon* on my flights yesterday, bringing me almost to the end of my occasional re-read of the Penric & Desdemona series. Bujold is one of my favorite authors, but this particular series really gets me in a specific but hard to describe way. Very unexpected for me. #bookstodon #audiobooks #bujold
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Finished season 3 of the excellent Umbrella Academy.
I heard a rumor that Aidan Gallagher (Five) has been cast as Miles Vorkosigan.
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The back of her trading card does mention she had a Klingon father and Human mother.
Klingon/Human romance is a real potential fertile ground for fiction. Notably Lois McMaster Bujold's long and wonderful Vorkosigan series started as a bit of an idea about such a romance, which shows in the early part of Shards of Honor.
Contrary to rumor it was apparently never written as a fanfic but the influence is still there.
#SF #StarTrek #Bujold #Vorkosigan #Barrayar
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I second the Kristine Kathryn Rusch suggestion. I also like the first half dozen books in her Retrieval Artist series very much. The Murderbot series is very good indeed. I am somewhat ambivalent about the Hyperion cantos. Another series I particular like is the Vorkosigan saga by Lois McMaster Bujold.