Mirror Dance (Vorkosigan Saga, #8)
ISBN:
9781433205682 (1433205688)
Publish date: June 1st 2007
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Space,
Sci Fi Fantasy,
War,
Military,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Military Science Fiction
Series: Vorkosigan Saga (Publication order) 3 (#8)
This is a novel that grows on you. When I first read it back in 2005, I reasonably liked it. Except for Cordelia's Honor it was the best part of the saga up till that point in the narrative, but I didn't love it. So I only reread parts of it, but never in its entirety - until now. And boy, this time...
If I was a billionaire who can afford to commission a novelist to write a custom made book just for me the desired end result would probably read something like a Lois McMaster Bujold book. Her prose style just clicks with me. Always very clear and accessible, yet graceful, passionate, witty and oft...
After the relative lack of plot in Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance starts out with a bang and never lets up. Also, it may contain a few of the most heartbreaking lines in the entire series, some of which are heartbreaking after some of the later books. (Contender, Cordelia about Aral: “I think Simon ...
~~Moved from GR~~ Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold "Anybody can do a mirror dance. It's not hard. You just copy everything your partner does."When Mark Vorkosigan looks in a mirror, he doesn't quite know what stares back. Mark was created a clone, trained as an assassin, intended to replace ...
Two things. First, the rating. I acknowledge this isn't an undying classic. If you're looking for science fiction with literary prose, go read Ursula Le Guin or Ray Bradbury or William Gibson. Or for the "Big Ideas" go to Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke. What Bujold offers is dif...
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