When Enemies Become More than Friends—
THEY WIN
In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan —he who was called "The Butcher of Komarr"—and would consequently become an outcast on her own planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his.
Sick of combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted only by the occasion ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But when the Emperor died, Aral became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar —and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war that was reminiscent of Earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their cell-damaged unborn would play in Barrayar's bloody legacy.
| Publisher's Note: Cordelia's Honor is comprised of two parts: Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Together they form a continuous story following the life of Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith from the day she met her then-enemy Lord Aral Vorkosigan through the boyhood of her son Miles. Barrayar won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the year. |
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Product ReviewOne review here for great writing. Ms. Bujold's writing style is prosaic yet poetic. Everything I have read by her has been top notch. I am rereading the Vor series for the third time in ten years.
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Product ReviewAn excellent starting point for the chronology. (Not, however, a good intro to the setting - Warrior's Apprentice (in Young Miles) is better for that.)
It wonderfully brings to point both how Miles came to be Miles, and how Bothari came to be in Aral's service, and rounds out Piotr, Aral & Cordelia Vorkosigan, Sgt Bothari, and Alys Vorpatril.
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Product ReviewFantastic. Shards of Honor is a wonderful beginning, and Barrayar is in many ways the highpoint of the entire Vorkosigan series.
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Product ReviewTop notch and intellegent humor, intrigue, romance, combat, and adventure. Any book in this series is great, do yourself a favor: read it now!
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