Miles Vorkosigan Adventures
12 primary works • 18 total works
Book 6
Book 12
ONE CUNNING PLAN TOO MANY. . .?
It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a youngperson's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love . . . money . . . bio-genetics. . . love . . . lack of money . . . incompatible planetary sexual mores . . .love . . . District succession scandals . . . the Emperor's wedding . . . and,of course, love . . .
Lord Miles Vorkosigan,youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time ofIsolation, has a problem all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for thebeautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic tomarriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his latecareer in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won't do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan . . .
Lord MarkVorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of CommodoreKoudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can'tsolve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurialscheming might. He has a cunning plan . ..
"It's another winner with all kinds ofunexpected adventures . . . Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue andSTYLE! A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could onlyhappen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel. . . . Boy, can she write!”
-Anne McCaffrey
It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a youngperson's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love . . . money . . . bio-genetics. . . love . . . lack of money . . . incompatible planetary sexual mores . . .love . . . District succession scandals . . . the Emperor's wedding . . . and,of course, love . . .
Lord Miles Vorkosigan,youngest Imperial Auditor to be appointed by the Emperor since the Time ofIsolation, has a problem all his new power can't solve: unrequited love for thebeautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson. Ekaterin is violently allergic tomarriage as a result of her first exposure. But as Miles learned from his latecareer in galactic covert ops, if a frontal assault won't do, go to subterfuge. He has a cunning plan . . .
Lord MarkVorkosigan has a problem: his love for the sunny Kareen, daughter of CommodoreKoudelka, has just become unrequited again. But if all his new money can'tsolve their dilemma, perhaps a judicious blending of science and entrepreneurialscheming might. He has a cunning plan . ..
"It's another winner with all kinds ofunexpected adventures . . . Georgette Heyer has met her match for intrigue andSTYLE! A sprightly conducted romance with twists and turns that could onlyhappen in a Vorkosigan-inspired novel. . . . Boy, can she write!”
-Anne McCaffrey
Book 14
- Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series! Captain IvanVorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staffofficer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter MilesVorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully,new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his lifeon Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. But when anold friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive youngwoman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, Ivan's chivalrousnature takes over. It seems danger and adventure have once more found CaptainVorpatril!
Book 17
A NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD WINNING SERIES FROM MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD! Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns to the planet that changed her destiny.
Book 1986
After failing to pass the physicals for the Barrayaran Military Academy, the brittle-boned, dwarfish son of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan uses a clever touch of creativity to finance a shipment of munitions into a war zone. When this simple merchant expedition draws the attention of an unexpected enemy, Miles is forced to masquerade as commander of a fictional fleet of hired guns he names after the mountains near his home--the Dendarii Mercenaries. His original crew of misfits grows into a considerable force as enemies become allies, guided by the delicate political manoeuvrings Miles learned from his father. Miles' ability to think himself out of a tight spot makes him a natural - if unlikely - leader, but this adventure in deep space is just a warm-up. On his homeworld of Barrayar, a deadly plot has been hatched against his father, Aral. A carefully planned trap is being laid, and only the wiles of the empire's unlikeliest hero can thwart it...
Book 1986
Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they used to, and attempts to order replacements by mail have failed catastrophically. But when Ethan is sent to find out what happened and acquire more eggs, he finds himself in a morass of Cetagandan covert ops and Jackson Whole politics - and the only person who's around to rescue him is the inimitable - and, disturbingly, female - Elli Quinn, Dendarii rent-a-spy.
Book 1988
Leo Graf was an effective engineer ...Safety Regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporation exploitation of his bright new students - till that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn't anticipated a situation where the right thing to do was neither safe, nor in the rules...Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies - now all he had to do was teach them to be free.
Book 1989
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Book 1994
Book 1998
Accident or
Treachery?
Komarr could be a garden-with a thousand
more years work. or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now
the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered
Treachery?
Komarr could be a garden-with a thousand
more years work. or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now
the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered
Book 2002
This is a comedy of terrors. A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the station docks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other things on their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited births of their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's Emperor Gregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-level troubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies and deceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with wider consequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life against death in horrifying new forms. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.
Book 2008
In the wake of unexpected planetary peace and the disappearance of the Dendarii payroll, mercenary captain Miles Naismith attempts to discover the link between the insufferable Captain Galeni and the Komarran rebel expatriates. Reissue. AB.
Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard.
At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and
he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the
planet of Jackson's Whole,
At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and
he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the
planet of Jackson's Whole,
When Cordelia Naismith and her survey crew are attacked by a renegade groupfrom Barrayar, she is taken prisoner by Aral Vorkosigan, commander of theBarrayan ship that has been taken over by an ambitious and ruthless crew member.Aral and Cordelia survive countless mishaps while their mutual admiration andeven stronger feelings emerge.
When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arrival, the two men are inexplicably attacked by a servant of the late empress. When the same servant turns up dead the next day, Miles and Ivan find themselves in the middle of a mystery. Miles tries to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture, while lascivious Ivan manages to get himself involved with several noble females at the same time, a diplomatic no-no of the first order. As the plot thickens, it becomes clear that it's up to Miles to save the empire. With her usual skill, Bujold addresses timeless issues of human identity through the personal dramas of her characters.
Following her marriage to the notorious 'Butcher of Komarr', Lord Aral Vorkosigan, Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast on her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she is ready to settle down to a quiet life on Barrayar, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. At least, that was the plan...With the death of the emperor, Aral has become Regent for the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar, thus making him - and his family - a target for traitors and malcontents. It takes but one lapse in the constant, deadly game of palace intrigue for things to go terribly wrong. An assassination attempt on the young emperor fails but the poison gas used does find a victim: the pregnant Cordelia. The Lady Vorkosigan herself is unharmed, but the gas seriously affects the growth and development of their unborn child, Miles. Irreparable cell-damage means that the heir to House Vorkosigan is born with bones that are, and will always be, unnaturally brittle, and he will never stand taller than his mother's shoulder. But what he lacks in strength, the young Miles more than makes up for in spirit.
Neither Aral nor Cordelia could possibly guess the part their fragile son is destined to play in the future of the empire...
Neither Aral nor Cordelia could possibly guess the part their fragile son is destined to play in the future of the empire...
- Miles Vorkosigan is back! Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating
death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove
- he's been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is
fair play. But whe