Winterfair Gifts
This Hugo-nominated novella adds a delightful extra chapter to Bujold’s acclaimed Vorkosigan series. Falling in between the novels A Civil Campaign and Diplomatic Immunity, it describes the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and the events leading up to it.In the festive season of Winterfair on the...
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This Hugo-nominated novella adds a delightful extra chapter to Bujold’s acclaimed Vorkosigan series. Falling in between the novels A Civil Campaign and Diplomatic Immunity, it describes the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and the events leading up to it.In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan is making elaborate preparations for his wedding. The long-awaited event stirs up romance and intrigue among his eccentric family and friends, particularly for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. But Miles also has an enemy who is plotting to turn the romantic ceremony into a festival of death.Winterfair Gifts offers another of Bujold’s witty, character-centered science fiction plots with a twist of romance.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781433250170 (1433250179)
Publish date: July 1st 2008
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 2
Edition language: English
Series: Vorkosigan Saga (Publication order) 3 (#13)
This is the epilogue to A Civil Campaign, Miles and Ekaterin's wedding (including some last minute assassination plot) told from Armsman Roic's point of view. Roic isn't your usual ImpSec trained armsman. He was a policeman in the Vorkosigan district capital and some heroism brought him to the att...
I read this in the omnibus [b:Miles in Love|1797901|Miles in Love (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #6)|Lois McMaster Bujold|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348315618s/1797901.jpg|1796997]. I was surprised it's told through Roic's, one of the guardsman's, point of view. We see the wedding through his eyes and hi...
A short, though pleasant, romantic story with just a touch of intrigue. I listened to the audio version which was narrated by Grover Gardner
Delightful. So good to see Taura here, and other cameos from the little Admiral's past. There's not as much substance as I've come to expect from Bujold's novellas, but that doesn't make this story any less engaging. I loved being able to go to The Wedding. Not at all a stand-alone, but a worthy add...
A little sentimental, but engrossing and sweet. Not one for readers who haven't followed most/all the Vorkosigan books, though.