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Cometo una compra impulsiva?
#VorkosiganSaga

Cometo una compra impulsiva?
#VorkosiganSaga

Me he terminado Komarr 👀👀👀 esta tarde empiezo con Una Campaña Civil. Que fantasía de libros.

#VorkosiganSaga

Me he terminado Komarr 👀👀👀 esta tarde empiezo con Una Campaña Civil. Que fantasía de libros.

#VorkosiganSaga

Estoy en la recta final de Recuerdos de la saga Vorkosigan y jooooder menuda telenovela se ha montado y no como crítica jajajaja, que ganas de terminar la jornada laboral y seguir, porque me queda nada y está muy interesante. La verdad es que desde hace 2 libros esto está especialmente jugoso.

#vorkosigansaga

Estoy en la recta final de Recuerdos de la saga Vorkosigan y jooooder menuda telenovela se ha montado y no como crítica jajajaja, que ganas de terminar la jornada laboral y seguir, porque me queda nada y está muy interesante. La verdad es que desde hace 2 libros esto está especialmente jugoso.

#vorkosigansaga

My thoughts on casting for an AppleTV or HBO series on the Vorkosigan series

Miles - Peter Dinklage
Aral - Sean Bean
Cordelia - Olivia Coleman
Bothari - Zachary Baharov
Taura - Gwendoline Christie
Illyan - Thomas Jane
Tung - Hiroyuki Sanada
Byerly - Michael Urie
Ivan - Alexander Skarsgård
Piotr - Rade Serbedzija
Gregor - Keon Alexander
Elena - Cara Gee
Alys - Shohreh Aghdashloo

#Vorkosigan #VorkosiganSaga #VorkosiganSeries

My thoughts on casting for an AppleTV or HBO series on the Vorkosigan series

Miles - Peter Dinklage
Aral - Sean Bean
Cordelia - Olivia Coleman
Bothari - Zachary Baharov
Taura - Gwendoline Christie
Illyan - Thomas Jane
Tung - Hiroyuki Sanada
Byerly - Michael Urie
Ivan - Alexander Skarsgård
Piotr - Rade Serbedzija
Gregor - Keon Alexander
Elena - Cara Gee
Alys - Shohreh Aghdashloo

#Vorkosigan #VorkosiganSaga #VorkosiganSeries

“Gave it up?” said Ivan. “That’s no good. Just because someone else is some sort of natural flaming genius, doesn’t mean that you’re an idi . . . um.” Um. “Doesn’t mean that you should . . .” He tried rushing the notion. “Should hide your light under the covers.”

Excerpt From
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Gave it up?” said Ivan. “That’s no good. Just because someone else is some sort of natural flaming genius, doesn’t mean that you’re an idi . . . um.” Um. “Doesn’t mean that you should . . .” He tried rushing the notion. “Should hide your light under the covers.”

Excerpt From
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

I thought I knew everything. Surely I knew nothing. How had his own life become such a surprise to him, so utterly rearranged? His brain had whirled with a thousand plans for these tiny lives, visions of the future both hopeful and dire, funny and fearful. For a moment, it seemed to come to a full stop. I have no idea who these two people are going to be.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

I thought I knew everything. Surely I knew nothing. How had his own life become such a surprise to him, so utterly rearranged? His brain had whirled with a thousand plans for these tiny lives, visions of the future both hopeful and dire, funny and fearful. For a moment, it seemed to come to a full stop. I have no idea who these two people are going to be.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

@dancingtreefrog @foxylustygrover.bsky.social the entire #VorkosiganSaga by Bujold, #RykaAoki and her Light from Uncommon Stars, all things #StevenGould, and Varley’s #ThunderAndLightning books.

Each are brilliant, incredibly well edited and intelligently crafted gems which offer up new insights on each re-reading.

@dancingtreefrog @foxylustygrover.bsky.social the entire #VorkosiganSaga by Bujold, #RykaAoki and her Light from Uncommon Stars, all things #StevenGould, and Varley’s #ThunderAndLightning books.

Each are brilliant, incredibly well edited and intelligently crafted gems which offer up new insights on each re-reading.

@dancingtreefrog @foxylustygrover.bsky.social the entire #VorkosiganSaga by Bujold, #RykaAoki and her Light from Uncommon Stars, all things #StevenGould, and Varley’s #ThunderAndLightning books.

Each are brilliant, incredibly well edited and intelligently crafted gems which offer up new insights on each re-reading.

@dancingtreefrog @foxylustygrover.bsky.social the entire #VorkosiganSaga by Bujold, #RykaAoki and her Light from Uncommon Stars, all things #StevenGould, and Varley’s #ThunderAndLightning books.

Each are brilliant, incredibly well edited and intelligently crafted gems which offer up new insights on each re-reading.

@dancingtreefrog @foxylustygrover.bsky.social the entire #VorkosiganSaga by Bujold, #RykaAoki and her Light from Uncommon Stars, all things #StevenGould, and Varley’s #ThunderAndLightning books.

Each are brilliant, incredibly well edited and intelligently crafted gems which offer up new insights on each re-reading.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

It wasn't enough that humans did something so difficult as learning to play a musical instrument. Then they had to do it in groups. While walking around. In complicated patterns. And then they competed with one another to do it even better. Excellence, this kind of excellence could never have any sane economic justification. It had to be done for the honor of one's country, or one's people, or the glory of God. For the joy of being human.

Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

It wasn't enough that humans did something so difficult as learning to play a musical instrument. Then they had to do it in groups. While walking around. In complicated patterns. And then they competed with one another to do it even better. Excellence, this kind of excellence could never have any sane economic justification. It had to be done for the honor of one's country, or one's people, or the glory of God. For the joy of being human.

Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

But if all the progressive-minded men had opted out then, as you are proposing to do now, none of the changes I've seen in my lifetime could have happened. We've changed. We can change some more. Not instantly, no. But if all the decent folks quit and only the idiots are left to run the show, it won't be good for the future.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

But if all the progressive-minded men had opted out then, as you are proposing to do now, none of the changes I've seen in my lifetime could have happened. We've changed. We can change some more. Not instantly, no. But if all the decent folks quit and only the idiots are left to run the show, it won't be good for the future.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“It occurred to him that back when he was a Hassadar guard, he'd never once gone into a house to clean up a bad scene, blood on the walls and evil smells in the air, where there were books like this.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Winterfair Gifts
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“It occurred to him that back when he was a Hassadar guard, he'd never once gone into a house to clean up a bad scene, blood on the walls and evil smells in the air, where there were books like this.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Winterfair Gifts
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“As for happiness . . . I don't think you can give that to anyone, if they don't have it in them. However, it's certainly possible to give un-happiness”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“As for happiness . . . I don't think you can give that to anyone, if they don't have it in them. However, it's certainly possible to give un-happiness”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Never, ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Never, ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste . . . years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just . . . take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste . . . years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just . . . take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that, and walk away. But that's hard.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity…. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted—but rather, vastly enriched.

Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity…. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted—but rather, vastly enriched.

Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

I want a whole series of Cordelia Naismith adventures, dammit.

#scifi #vorkosigansaga #bujold

I want a whole series of Cordelia Naismith adventures, dammit.

#scifi #vorkosigansaga #bujold

@Lizette603_23 Imperial Auditor

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

@Lizette603_23 Imperial Auditor

Komarr by Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“People have some very odd illusions about power. Mostly it consists of finding a parade and nipping over to place yourself at the head of the band. Just as eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“People have some very odd illusions about power. Mostly it consists of finding a parade and nipping over to place yourself at the head of the band. Just as eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

One's career might depend solely on one's own efforts, but marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion. Perhaps it was just as well. If people were too sensible, the human race might well come to and end. Evolution favored the maximum production of children, not of happiness.

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

One's career might depend solely on one's own efforts, but marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion. Perhaps it was just as well. If people were too sensible, the human race might well come to and end. Evolution favored the maximum production of children, not of happiness.

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

So at the dawn of puberty, she'd learned no one would defend her, she could not defend herself, and the only way to survive was to pretend to be dead. Great.… If she needed to be stone right now because it was the only way she knew how to survive, let her be marble, let her be granite.

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga