I’ve been Bujold’s fan since my first reading of one of her Vorkosigan novels. Miles Vorkosigan, the hero of the series, is definitely my favorite sci-fi hero, but Cordelia, his mother, is much more. I love Cordelia. Her humanity and strength are humbling and uplifting. I hope such women exist in ou...
I bought this book a year or so ago when the Miles Vorkosigan series of books was first recommended to me. I was reluctant to pick it up because usually I'm not that fond of SF-books (strange really considering I'm a dedicated fan of B5, ST and SW...) but once I did I couldn't put this volume down. ...
Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan saga is my latest escapism/comfort reading, to fill in the gaps between my difficult acquisition of Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter books. They're fun and breezy reads, with strong characters and varied, well-considered settings. I'm just sorry I didn't read them when I ...
I read this several years back while on vacation with a friend who was pregnant with her first child. One morning, we're lounging on the deck with coffee and she interrupts my reading to tell me how awful it is that pregnant women are never featured in SF. "This book has a pregnant protagonist. Lo...
This is an omnibus edition consisting of the first two novels in the Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Shards of Honor is Bujold's first novel, and I think it shows. Her later works are stronger in every particular. I wouldn't have been very impressed had this been the first work of he...
Space. The final frontier. (...) Betan Astronomical Survey ship Rene Magritte's mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before. Cue the freaky music.Sorry, but the Star Trek opening was just right there in the...
4.5 StarsCordelia's Honor is a fascinating novel, or rather a fascinating omnibus, having been split down the middle. Well not the precise middle but that middle we mortals all mean when we say middle. The middle that's a little to the left. However either way this novel was split into two novels, a...
8/2012 I got to the end of the series and had to start at the beginning again. Coming at this from the other end, oh how wonderful it is. "Of course," one thinks, over and over, "how very like Cordelia (or Bothari, or Aral...) to respond thus." And one has a deeper appreciation for the world-buildi...
Lois McMaster Bujold is an author I have been meaning to read for the longest time, she has won so many major sf awards it is clear that she must be some kind of major talent in the field. However it took me years and years to get around to picking up one off her books simply because the synopsis of...
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