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Young Miles (Vorkosigan Saga) Lois McMaster Bujold, James P. Baen
Publisher: Baen Books

If you want “The Warrior's Apprentice,” buy “Young Miles” ($8 omnibus which includes it plus a novella and another novel). I had an opportunity to meet Lois McMaster Bujold recently, and I told her what recently occurred to me: the first two Vorkosigan books are responsible for bringing me back into science fiction, after two decades of straying from a childhood built on Asimov and After I finished it, I had numerous people tell me that the saga doesn't really get going until Miles's story begins in the books presented in this volume. So far as the Vorkosigan Saga is concerned: The Shopping Trip from Barrayar. The hero of most of the stories is Miles Vorkosigan: charismatic leader, strategic genius, crippled hunchback, and son of one of the most powerful men on his militaristic backwater home planet. First, most of the books center around a character named Miles Vorkosigan, but the first two are told from the perspective of Miles' mother, Cordelia Naismith. Starting with this novel, I began to be impressed by the increasingly complex web of interpersonal relationships that this kind of generational saga can portray. If you want to jump into the Vorkosigan Saga, you can do so at any point, but be aware that the books vary in their amount of romantic content. Hadn't heard of the Ivan book but she's in the past hinted that he's not as dumb as he seems, so it'd be pretty cool if she wrote him up as sneaking a whole career of his own without *Miles* twigging to it! Book Review - Young Miles, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Though over the years the series has developed Young Miles (omnibus containing The Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game, the first two novels with Miles as protagonist) has more of a focus on fast-paced action and mystery. Bujold recommends that the series be read in chronological order of content as opposed to the order . The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. For those not familiar with the author and series, the "Vorkosigan Saga" is a series of standalone novels (and a few novellas) that together tell the story of two generations of a very unusual family in a SF universe in which interstellar travel is relatively easy using the . Of course, there was the irrepressible 17-year-old Miles Vorkosigan, but there was also Miles's crush, Elena Bothari, his irritating cousin Ivan, and the young Emperor Gregor, who was just coming into his power.